Re: Voltaire's Weird Situation with Coffee

Also on page 90:
We side with Voltaire who said of coffee, "It is a poison, certainly--
but a slow poison, for I've been drinking it these eighty-four years."

Jim

Flasherly wrote:
> On Oct 7, 4:27 pm, "Twug Storn" <tytyt...@tytyttyty.com> wrote:
> > "javawizard" <javawiz...@aol.com> wrote in message
> >
> > news:99a4fa76-6216-4444-8211-690fc3eef3e4@m74g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > > Voltaire drank between fifty and sixty-five cups of coffee every day.
> > > - from the Food section ofwww.odd-info.com
> >
> > Probably little tiny cups
>
> I'd wonder -- being it's going to be brewed, and likely served up with
> mugs, wooden or fired earthen.  Also, where he drank it -- coffee
> would have been right for a caf?, as it was his youth that saw coffee
> being first moved off street vendors and into  house establishments.
> Let's see, ah yes -- Voltaire frequented The Caf? de Procope, at some
> opposition to La Com?die, Procope, also being of lower street urchin
> origins, whose proprietor managed to build and sway into an artistic
> vogue, clients of a likes among writers, musicians, or actors.
> Voltaire actually preferred coffee without culinary taste strictures,
> being it was laced by chocolate.  The candid beat aesthete, however,
> often a populous characterization of a French cavernous setting, in a
> dark basement dimly offset by candles, may very well be prototypically
> found in this very den he frequented.  To credit, one may suppose, an
> adherence his stayed within alliances, and forewent any indulgence The
> Caf? Royal Drummer sallied, as aristocratic bents inclined;--
> Apparently within contrasts, Louis XV incessantly attended, to a
> degree of vice and excess apportioned, that Marie Antoinette no less
> gratified at some further realm of what that should conceivably
> entail.
>
> From the mere briefest of trivias compounded from [pp. 18-20 of] The
> Book of Coffee and Tea, by Joel Schapira, I humbly thought to submit
> for your greater perusal.
>
> Ennobled in attestation, as always &etc.,
> -F
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Flasherly (08.10.2008 17:18)