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Coffee was the last of the trio, a commodity often used in tandem with the other two. Originally grown only on the Arabian peninsula, in Yemen, coffee spread through the Ottoman Empire. The Augsburg physician Leonhart Rauwulf reported in his ‘Journey to the Lands of the Orient’ (1582) about the Turks and Arabs having “a good drink which they greatly esteem. They call it ‘chaube’.” Coffee, too, was initially regarded as a form of drug. Dr. Rauwuff told his readers that the drink was “nearly as black as ink and helpful against stomach complaints.” Coffee also purified the blood, so it was believed, and was good against dropsy, gout, colic, and sore eyes. This was a medicinal versatility that rivaled the apothecary’s favorite, sugar. But coffee was also likened to tobacco because, according to the humoral theory, it dried out excessive phlegm and mucus. Coffee beans reached western Europe by different routes. Venetian merchants brought it, as they brought so many commodities from the east; Yemen was also a stopping place for Dutch East India Company ships. The Ottomans carried coffee with them as they advanced into the Habsburg Empire in the seventeenth century, and famously left bags of it behind when they retreated after the failed siege of Vienna in 1683. Europeans then planted the copy the Dutch in Java and Surinam, the French in the Antilles. Saint-Domingue, best known as sugar island, also produced sixty thousand pounds of coffee in 1789. Coffee was shipped back to Bordeaux, then re-exported to Amsterdam or Hamburg coffee drinking became well established in german lands in the eighteenth century, although it was not the thick, “Turkish” coffee of the Ottomans, but a lighter drink from which sediment had been removed and to which both milk and sugar were sometimes added. ~ Page 131

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