Coffee-House
How the simple commodity of coffee came to rewrite the experience of metropolitan life
When the first coffee-house opened in London in 1652, customers were bewildered by this strange new drink from Turkey. But those who tried coffee were soon won over. More coffee-houses were opened across London and, in the following decades, in America and Europe.
For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the ...
How the simple commodity of coffee came to rewrite the experience of metropolitan life
When the first coffee-house opened in London in 1652, customers were bewildered by this strange new drink from Turkey. But those who tried coffee were soon won over. More coffee-houses were opened across London and, in the following decades, in America and Europe.
For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the ...
