It has been a long time since I read the material, and I remember
neither sources nor many details, but coffee and choclate were at
one time rather important in western european (and particularly
british) cultural/intellectual/literary/political history. In the late
17th
and 18th centuries each political or literary clique had its own
coffee house. Coffee houses in London around 1700  were perhaps
very nearly the equivalent of today's maillists.

Carrol

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