Thursday, August 8, 2013

Coffee: The Viagra of the 17th Century

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Today, coffee consumption is linked (a little dubiously) to all sorts of positive outcomes. Just last week, a study correlated increased coffee consumption to a lower risk of suicide.


But a few centuries ago, coffee was linked, even more dubiously, to a different kind of positive outcome.


Over at the Public Domain Review, Matthew Green tells of the early modern London coffee shop scene. Coffee was a fast hit in England: A single "coffee shack" opened in 1652, and two years later, it was selling 600 "dishes" of coffee a day.


CoffehouseThe earliest known print of a coffee shop, dated to 1674. Image: Public Domain Review Read more...


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