Venice credits itself with the arrival of coffee in Europe, though the precise details are murky. Coffee houses were very much a thing in Istanbul by the sixteenth century, and the Venetian ambassador to the Sublime Porte, Gianfrancesco Morosini commented as early as 1585 that the locals were enjoying a “stimulating black water”. Coffee was supposedly b…
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