| Show an intoxicant among orthodox edans and therefore was a forbidden drink but coffee nevertheless increased in popularity among the arabian moslems mst and became as closely identified with arabia as is tea with china until the close of the seventeenth century practically all of the worlds supply of coffee came fr from OM yemen in southern arabia and the name of mocha a yemenite seaport became a sort of synonym for coffee later coffee culture spread to java and for a time this east indies island led in production so that its name also became a synonym for coffee |
