![]() Medieval Arab lexicographers traditionally held that the etymology of qahwah meant ' wine', given its distinctly dark color, and derived from the verb qahiya ( قَهِيَ), ' to have no appetite'. The word coffee entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch koffie, borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish kahve ( قهوه), borrowed in turn from the Arabic qahwah ( قَهْوَة). Modern production techniques along with the mass productization of coffee has made it a household item today. The period since 1950 saw the widening of the playing field owing to the emergence of several other major producers, notably Colombia, the Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, and Vietnam the latter overtook Colombia and became the second-largest producer in 1999. īy 1852 Brazil became the world's largest producer of coffee and has held that status ever since. ![]() By 1788, Saint-Domingue supplied half the world's coffee. These beans later sprouted 18,680 coffee trees which enabled its spread to other Caribbean islands such as Saint-Domingue and also to Mexico. One of the earliest cultivations of coffee in the New World was when Gabriel de Clieu brought coffee seedlings to Martinique in 1720. There is also version that the first Viennese coffee houses dates back to about this time and was founded in 1685 by an Armenian named Johannes Theodat.Coffeepot (cafetière "campanienne"), part of a service, 1836, hard-paste porcelain, Metropolitan Museum of ArtĬoffee houses were established in Western Europe by the late 17th century, especially in Holland, England, and Germany. Polish king Jan III Sobieski who liberated Vienna is said to have handed it over to his officer and interpreter Georg Franz Kolschitzky who then used it and opened first coffee house in Vienna. Legend has it that during the liberation of the Second Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683, the soldiers found some sacks of strange green beans, which they first thought of as camel food and wanted to burn them. History of Viennese Coffee House is very interesting. Some of them offer a full menu of mostly traditional Viennese cuisine. The coffee house usually offers small dishes such as sausages and pastries, cakes and tarts. With the coffee guests will be served with the glass of tap water and if you stay longer the waiter would often top it up. In the long-standing Viennese coffee house tradition, around 50 coffee preparations were served, which were varied with the addition or exclusion of sugar, cream, whipped cream, milk, milk foam, milk skin, or spirits. 14 chair of the Thonet manufactory and typical coffee tables with marble tabletops. Most of them are decorated with famous No. The decor of the typical Viennese coffeehouse ranges from comfortable plushy to cool and stylish, very often inspired by Historicism. After Second World War lot of famous Viennese coffee houses had to close, caused by changing leisure habit of Viennese. This era was golden age of Viennese coffee houses there were around 600 of them in the city. The famous Austrian writer Stefan Zweig wrote about Viennese coffee houses as a “ sort of democratic club, open to everyone for the price of a cheap cup of coffee, where every guest can sit for hours with this little offering, to talk, write, play cards, receive post, and above all consume an unlimited number of newspapers and journals.” Many literary works were written entirely or partially in these coffee houses, what led to development of specific coffee house literature (Kaffeehausliteratur) typical for Vienna during the time of the fin de siècle (end of the century). The newspapers are traditionally held on the magazine racks, which are usually made of thin bentwood. Unlike in an ordinary café, it is quite common for a guest who had just ordered a coffee to sit at his table for hours, extensively studying the existing newspapers. Viennese cafés have specific atmosphere found nowhere else in the world, very elegantly decorated, they offer big variety of coffees, typical Viennese pastries and international newspapers. Viennese Coffee House Culture is very important part of Viennese tradition that has been part of UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage since 2011. Place where time and space are consumed, but only the coffee is found on the bill
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