The title of this قصة عشق article is from an old Turkish proverb, which for this writer is more than acceptable seeing that in 1475 'Kiva Han', the world's first...plusThe title of this قصة عشق article is from an old Turkish proverb, which for this writer is more than acceptable seeing that in 1475 'Kiva Han', the world's first coffeehouse, opened in Constantinople. So I figure the Turks have a more sane and traditional handle on one of my favourite pastimes; drinking a black as hell, strong as death and you know the rest, coffee first thing in the morning. And did you know that in 1538 Ottoman Turks occupied Yemen and parboiled coffee beans (to render them infertile and maintain their monopoly) and exported them from Mocha, hence coffee's nickname "mocha." Then in 1650 a Lebanese Ottoman Jewish student named Jacobs opens the first European coffeehouse at Oxford University, England. Over the next half century, coffee takes Europe by storm, where coffeehouses are called "penny universities." The rest they say is history until the beginning of the Americanization of this special beverage, reeking with flavour and history, when in 1871 John Arbuckle opens a coffee... Moins