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Show Coffee Was Long Under Ban as Evil And Intoxicating; Was Called 'Cawaah When we step in to buy our favorite fa-vorite blend, ground to suit our own method of brewing, for Just a few cents a pound, it seems hard to realize real-ize that when the coffee houses In England first had it coffee cost $20 a pound. Naturally it was not then a household beverage, and many are the stories written around the meetings of the bigwigs, intelligentsia intelligent-sia and better financed leaders of the day who gathered in the public coffee houses to discuss the problems prob-lems of the moment. Most coffee sold is blended from a number of different kinds of beans, each with a character of iU own. What you 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 the house with its tantalizing odor. The world does move, as proved by the historical fact that once it was necessary to bootleg coffee, notably no-tably in Mahometan countries, because be-cause it was classified as an intoxicant intoxi-cant and banned by religious regulation. regu-lation. The advent of the coffee house, or cafe, centers of political, artistic and social life in many a country of the Western world, marked the triumph of science because be-cause it had been discovered that coffee was only a mild stimulant and there is a world of difference between a stimulant and an intoxicant, intoxi-cant, writes Jessie 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 ban against it was permanently removed re-moved everywhere in the world. Originally called "cawaah," in its Oriental spelling, coffee came by way of Europe into the Baltic sea area, thence into Holland and England, Eng-land, and thence to North America. Ameri-ca. The Western world dominates the coffee trade and ranks high in coffee use. |