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Jaipur Cafes/Coffee House.

Apr 1st, 2008 03:14
john smith, http://www.jaipurjaipur.com/

According to the most famous and well-known story, a goat-herder in
Ethiopia named  Kaldi noticed his goats dancing wildly after eating the
red cherries of a wild shrub. Curious, he tried the cherries himself and
was delighted by their stimulating effects. Soon after, it became a
religious ceremonial drink to keep monks awake during their long hours
prayer at night!
Since its origination in Ethiopia in the 3rd century, coffee has been
used as a medicine, a wine and even an aphrodisiac. Coffee cultivation
began sometime in the fifteenth century and for many centuries to follow
the Yemen province of Arabia was the world's primary source of coffee.
Around this time, coffee also made its way into Europe through the city
of Venice where it gained popularity with the masses when street vendors
began selling it in addition to cold beverages. By the middle of the
17th century the Dutch dominated the world's merchant shipping industry
and they soon introduced coffee cultivation to their colonies in
Indonesia on the islands of Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Bali. Since the
19th century, Brazil has emerged as the world's foremost coffee
producer. Much of the neighboring Latin American countries supply about
65% of the world's coffee. Its popularity in America took hold in 1773,
when King George angered settlers with a high tax on tea. Later, coffee
kept the cowboys warm on the frontier. It was a staple of the black
market during World War II, and coffee continues to wake up America
every morning.
Coffeehouse shares some of the characteristics of a bar, and some of the
characteristics of a restaurant, but it is different from a cafeteria.
As the name suggests, coffeehouses focus on providing coffee and tea as
well as light snacks. This differs from a café, which is an informal
restaurant, offering a range of hot meals, and possibly being licensed
to serve alcohol. Many coffee houses in the Muslim world, and in Muslim
districts in the West, offer shisha, powdered tobacco smoked through a
hookah. In establishments where it is tolerated - which may be found
notably in the Netherlands, especially in Amsterdam - cannabis may be
smoked as well.
From a cultural standpoint, coffeehouses largely serve as centers of
social interaction: the coffeehouse provides social members with a place
to congregate, talk, write, read, entertain one another, or pass the
time, whether individually or in small groups.
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