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1) A Five Gun Salute to the Origins of Coffee

A History of Coffee

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The M's Coffee House

Coffee is being produced across the Arabian Peninsula up in modern day Turkey. It's going out around the Gulf, around the Indian Ocean. Can you like paint for me a picture of the kind of establishment where it would be drank? You have fantastic sort of coffee houses in the great capitals in Cairo and in what was then called Constantinople. We've got images from about the 16th century, but mostly they're drawn by Europeans who've never actually been there.

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