Saturday, October 31, 2009

Coffee history goes way back......

First coffee house? in Istanbul, Turkey (1475)

First to "soften" coffee with cream and sugar?
a Europeon, of course, in Vienna (1529)

First coffee shop in New York City?

the Tontine Coffee House, (1792) it became the New York Stock Exchange because of all the business conducted there.

Where Starbucks got its start? in Seattle, (1971) with 8000 locations. all over the world.

reference: coffeetea.about.com/od/history1/a/shophistory.htm

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