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The History of Coffee

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The History of Coffee Houses

In 1580, the Venetian physician Prospero Alpini introduced coffee to Venice. The first coffee house in Vienna was opened in 1683 after the siege of Vienna by the Ottoman Turks. In 1720, a French naval officer by the name of Gabriel de Clieu brought a few seedlings from the coffee plants in the Paris botanical gardens with him to the island of Martinique. Within 50 years, those seedlings had become 18680 coffee plants and Saint-Domingue alone produced half of all coffee in the world. Today, North America remains more of a coffee-drinking culture than a tea-drinking one.

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