January 15, 2004
CUPPA' JOHANN
An Associated Press story about the opening of the
href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=509&e=16&u=/ap/fr
ance_starbucks">first Starbucks coffee houses in France asserts
that Paris is the originator of the caf? culture. It's been my
understanding that coffee houses in Europe originated in Vienna, Austria, after
coffee was introduced to the populace by attacking Ottoman Turks in the
18th century. The Ottomans were repulsed, but a taste for coffee
remained and a coffee house culture grew, flourished, and persists to
this day.
Posted by Lexiphane at January 15, 2004 10:10 AM
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