All about coffee by William H. Ukers

2 by William H. Ukers, Ukers, William H. (William Harrison), 1873-1945

Chapter 5: INTRODUCTION OF COFFEE INTO WESTERN EUROPE

Chapters

Chapter 5: INTRODUCTION OF COFFEE INTO WESTERN EUROPE

When the three great temperance beverages, cocoa, tea, and coffee, came to Europe--Coffee first mentioned by Rauwolf in 1582--Early days of coffee in Italy--How Pope Clement VIII baptized it and made it a truly Christian beverage--The first European coffee house, in Venice, 1645--The famous Caffè Florian--Other celebrated Venetian coffee houses of the eighteenth century--The romantic story of Pedrocchi, the poor lemonade-vender, who built the most beautiful coffee house in the world Page 25
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