Show coffee was long under ian ban as evil and intoxicating was called Cawa ah the world does move as proved by the historical fact that once it was necessary to bootleg toffee notably in mahometano Maho countries be cause it was classified as an intoxicant and banned by religious regulation the advent of the coffee house or cafe centers of political artistic ana social life in many a country of the tha western world I 1 marked the triumph of science because it had bad been discovered that coffee was wac only a mild stimulant and there Is a world of difference between a stimulant and an intoxicant writes jessie marle marie deboth in the boston globe coffee was not even known to be edible or potable before the ninth century of the christian era and it was not until the middle of the sixteenth century that the ibe ban against it was permanently removed everywhere in the world originally called cawa ah 11 in its oriental spelling coffee came by way of europe into the baltic sea area thence into holland and england and thence to north america the western world dominates the coffee trade and ranks high in coffee use uce i when we step in to buy our favorite blind blend ground to suit our own method of brewing for just a few cents it a pound it seems seems hard to realize that when the coffee houses in england first bad had sit itI coffee cost 20 a pound naturally it was wag not then a household beverage and many are the stories written around the m meetings of the bigwigs big wigs intelligentsia and better financed leaders of the day who gathered in the public coffee houses to discuss the tha problems of the moment most coffee sold is blended from a number of different kinds of beans each with a character of its own what you me like depends upon your personal preference for certain of these characteristics and there Is everything available from the light mild blend to the heavy mouth filling flavor that seems to fill all the house with its tantalizing odor |