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Posted: 02 Aug 2022

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Coffee shop

Coffee shop
In 1652 the first coffee house opened in England and came to know as "Penny universities."

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 Dinesh
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In 1652, the first coffee house opened in England. The Lloyds Coffee House arrived in 1688 and lingered on to become for some time the world’s biggest insurance company. Coffee houses were known as “penny universities”; a penny was the charge for admission and a cup of coffee and if you wanted a touch of privilege you could toss a coin into an artfully placed tin and give a tip --To Insure Prompt Service. Grub Street lived in and out of coffee houses and it demand was for writers, quickly known as hacks. This came originally from backing, “a person hired to do routine work,” extended to horses for hire, then “broken-down nags,” the “drudge.” . . . Page 191
2 years ago.
 Dinesh
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FIRST STARBUCKS" ~ SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

First ever Starbucks
2 years ago.
 Dinesh
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Most of the coffee plantations of Brazil are descended from a single tree that originated in East Africa. Planting were first made in the West Indies, and some of the progeny reared there were transferred to South America, threatening the economies of several countries. It happens that wild varieties of coffee still grow in the Kaffa region of the southwestern Ethiopia, the presumed ancestral land of domestic coffee. Genes restraint to coffee rust were found there and bred into the Brazilian and Central American crops just in time to save the industry. Page 447 “Biophilia” “The Diversity of Life: Author” E. O. Wilson
20 months ago.
 Dinesh
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. . . Coffee was yet another drug imported from the Middle East. England’s first coffee shop was opened in Oxford around 1650 by a Jewish immigrant named Jacob (or perhaps in London in 1652 by a Greek immigrant named Pasqua – accounts differ). Guy Miege, so impressed byLondon’s retailers, soon thought coffee ‘more common [in England] tha anywhere else’. Taken (as it regularly was) with other, equally addictive imports – nicotine, sugar, cocoa – caffeine offered Englishmen an instant up for a penny a cup ~ Page 289

GEOGRAPHY IS DESTINY
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