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Turkish Coffee Foodways

Türk kahvesi

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Beans roasted, ground to dust, brewed unfiltered in a cezve and served with the grounds settling. Coffee reached Istanbul in the sixteenth century from Yemen by way of Ottoman Egypt and Syria; the preparation and the coffeehouse are what Istanbul made of it.

Atlas — where and when

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What is recorded

  • Coffee is documented in Yemen and Ethiopia long before Istanbul. It reached the Ottoman capital in the sixteenth century through Egypt and Syria. What is Turkish is the cezve preparation, the unfiltered serving and the coffeehouse — not the plant or the drink. documented

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