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The year 1689 saw the first café opening in Paris.

There was a time in our history when you could be executed for harming a coffee plant. At the same time in another part of the world, you could be executed for having one!

Coffee was denounced by many religious leaders as the drink of Satan. Coffee houses were known as “hotbeds of sedition”. In the 1700’s many coffee houses were ordered to close. For failing to comply, the punishment for first time offenders was public beating and humiliation. Second (and last) time offenders were sewn into a leather bag and thrown into the river. Think about that the next time you order a Latte!

In the year 1773, tea was replaced by coffee as the national drink in the Americas when angry colonists were enraged by King George’s enormous tax on tea. This of course led to The Boston Tea Party where the new nation gained its strong allegiance to coffee.

The world’s very first coffee house was opened in 1475 called The Kiv Han. An interesting Turkish law decreed that it was quite acceptable for a woman to ask for a divorce if her husband failed to provide her with adequate coffee rations.

Cappuccino derived its name due to its similarity in color to the robes of an order of Monks called the Capuchins.

Brazilian and many South American coffee plants are said to have been the consequence of a love affair between a French Governor's wife and a Brazilian official. Upon parting she bestowed upon him a bouquet containing flowering coffee branches!

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In 1732, at the height of his creative genius, Johann Sebastian Bach wrote the Cantata No. 211 or Coffee Cantata. It is considered by many to be a work of perfection. At the time of its writing, the German public was very concerned about the number of women that were frequenting coffee houses.

In the Cantata, a worried father scolds his daughter for her coffee habit, which she refers to as her dearest joy. The father implores her to quit, but the daughter continues to resist, telling him again and again, "Coffee, my one and only bliss is sweeter than thousands of kisses, better than sparkling wine." The girl finally renounces coffee only when convinced that no man will marry a woman with a coffee habit!

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