Monday, October 15, 2012

Coffee and art


Fine arts / coffee and art
Originally uploaded by trudeau
Please see the peregrination of coffee from Yemen to London.

See the role of London coffeehouses in the writing and publishing of witty magazines the Tatler and the Spectator.

Turkish coffee! The Ottoman empire.

And the narghile or huqqa, the fashionable water pipe that originated in Persia and India. The pipe is also called a sheesha in the Middle East.

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