18. JUST A DROP - Wine of the Bean

JUST A DROP: Less than 10 minutes about a wine topic, some news, and updates.

Disclaimer - this one’s a little over 10 minutes but it’s worth it! In this short episode, Farrah goes over the origins of coffee and why it was called “the wine of the Arabs.”

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References:

• Hammam Radio
• Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1991, Harlan Walker
• Paradise Dictionary - Dictionary of English words of Arabic etymology part II- Mohannad Al Fallouji, PhD
• Coffee and Qahwa: How a drink for Arab mystics went global
• Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East, Ralph S. Hattox
• Port of Mokha coffee + Serious Jolt on Kerning Cultures
• Coffee's Mysterious Origins
• How Coffee Went from a Mystical Sacrament to an Everyday Drink
• The Etymology of "Coffee": The Dark Brew, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Alan S. Kaye
• All about Coffee, William Harrison Ukers
• Coffee as a Social Drug, Steven Topik