Coffee Occasion

A Descriptive Catalogue of the London Traders, Tavern, and Coffee-House Tokens Current in the Seventeenth Century: Presented to the Corporation Library … Hanbury Beaufoy. By Jacob Henry Burn

Originally published in 1855. This volume from the Cornell University Library’s print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. [Read [...]

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Clubs and Club Life in London: With Anecdotes of its Famous Coffee Houses, Hostelries, and Taverns, From the Seventeenth Century to the Present Time

Originally published in 1899. This volume from the Cornell University Library’s print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. [Read [...]

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Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee: Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century

Review “‘Insightful engagement with the byways of Ottoman sociability and aesthetics, will amply reward the attention of a broad readership of cultural and gender historians as well as area specialists….The collection is a rarity in Ottoman studies thanks to its relatively tight temporal focus and the fresh methodologies [...]

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The Coffee Maker From the 19th Century

About twenty years ago almost every home, restaurant and office kitchen in Costa Rica was equipped with a gourmet coffee making device called Chorreador de caf?r simply caf?akero. It consisted of an unvarnished wooden frame about 33 cms. tall, with a round hole at the top where a wire rimmed cloth filter or strainer was [...]

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