Coffee: Brewing Innovation
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson
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The History of Coffee
Coffee originated in ethiopia, but it wasn't until coffee arrived in turkey during the sixteenth century that it really started to resemble the drink so many people love to day. It was here that the earliest method of manually brewing coffee was created using a tool called a jesve. Suddenly, brewing coffee was an activity that could be done every day. And thi led to perhaps the single greatest disruption in coffee's history, the coffee house. Here they shared ideas that were political, philosophical and even revolutionary.
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