4 times drinking coffee was illegal—or even punishable by death Rulers once closed cafés, burned beans, and even executed someone—all for a cup of coffee.

4 times drinking coffee was illegal—or even punishable by death #Technology #Other #HistoryOfCoffee #CulinaryCulture #BeverageHistory

https://www.popsci.com/health/coffee-ban-history/

Quote from: Bournand, François. Tunisie et tunisiens. Paris: J. Lefort, 1893, p. 191. #DrinkingStudies #HistoryOfCoffee #Orientalism #ColonialHistory 🗃️☕

Bournand stated: “Coffee, the Orientals say, is the drink of God, the source of life, invented by the angel Gabriel to restore the health of the Prophet." Such notions separated the coffee consumption of Tunisians from that of the French - where coffee was the drink of reason. #HistoryOfCoffee 🗃️☕

In fact, colonial sources regularly reported on local beliefs about drinks with the direct aim of othering or ridiculing colonised populations. François Bournand, for example, linked the popularity of coffee in Tunisia in 1893 to Muḥammad’s personal life. #Orientalism #HistoryOfCoffee 🗃️☕

Such statements show a deep lack of knowledge about Islam, as well as a misunderstanding of local jokes & explanations & of the #HistoryOfCoffee. Quote from: Pagès, Calixte. L’hygiène pour tous. Paris: C. Naud, 1903, p. 267. #Orientalism #FrenchColonialism #DrinkingStudies 🗃️☕

Black and white drawing showing five men in traditional North African clothes, talking. One of them is sitting on a mat on the floor, with a walking stick and a pair of shoes next to him. The other four are sitting on benches and chairs. Next to one of them, on the right hand side of the drawing, is a tray with coffee cups and a coffee pot.

Similarly, the French Orientalist painter Maurice Bouviolle also did a series of sketches of #MoorishCoffeehouses in Algeria in 1923 for the journal "L'Afrique du Nord Illustrée" (also available via Gallica: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...) #DrinkingStudies #HistoryOfCoffee #FrenchColonialism 🗃️☕

The Colour of Coffee: Racism, Gender and Coffee Consump­tion in 19th Century Algeria Today, coffee is consumed everywhere in the world. Despite its neo-colonial forms of production, it is a drink which brings people together, but the consumption of coffee in 19th century Algeria tells...

I have also written a shorter #OpenAccess article on the #HistoryOfCoffee in 2019 for the @g-d-gegenwart.bsky.social, with the title "The Colour of Coffee: Racism, Gender and Coffee Consumption in 19th Century Algeria": geschichtedergegenwart.ch/the-colour-o... #Colonialism 🗃️☕

A book cover showing an open burlap sack of coffee beans on a black background with the title in white

For all of the coffee lovers/connoisseurs/addicts here and elsewhere...

I learned a great deal about the history of coffee in this book.

Quiz: Maxwell House was named for what and where?

📚💙 ☕ #book #coffee #historyofcoffee