Coffee: "This is Coffee" 1961 Coffee Brewing Institute 13min

more at coffee.quickfound.net "Loving tribute to America's favorite stimulant." Public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archive, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and equalization. coffee.quickfound.net The New York Times, March 6, 1887, p. 12: - First Discovery of Coffee. - Playfair, in his History of Yemen (Bombay, 1859,) gives the names of many who have written in bygone days on that country and on coffee. He mentions its first use at Aden by a judge of that place who had seen it drank at Zeylá, on the African coast opposite Aden. This judge is said to have died AH 875 (AD 1470.) Probably some of the writers mentioned by Playfair read or wrote by mistake that coffee was first used in AD 875, and, perhaps, the same writer, misunderstanding the Arabic expression as to Zeylá being "on the non-Arabian coast," and thinking it meant Persia, and thence introduced into Arabia... - There is an account in a Turkish work written two centuries ago, and printed at Contantinople in AD 1732, that places the first use of coffee as a beverage in about the year AD 1250. The ripe fruit was found growing wild in the mountains of Yemen by a community of dervishes banished thither. They found the fruit relieved their hunger, and supported them in their vigils. Their prior, Sheykh 'Umer, advised ...

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