The Cultural History of Cafe the History of Constantinople Cafe

According to the 1635 records of the Turkish historian Pechevi Ibrahim I, it was not until 1554, during the reign of Suleiman I, that the coffee shop first appeared, and the two Syrians each opened a coffee shop in Constantinople. It is located near the noisy market near the port and the Passa mosque. The museum is equipped with clean mats and blankets, and the charge is very cheap.

The Turks soon fell in love with the cafe, which they regarded as the best place to rest, entertain and make friends. Later, even palace officials, senior civil and military officials and upper-class members of the public went in and out of the cafe.

The British have noticed that customers here are more likely to sit on stools on both sides of the street outside the cafe, talking like the British at Al Brewery, and if there is any news, talk about it on this occasion. The etiquette habit of drinking coffee reinforces egalitarianism. The great men of the city, such as the officials of the palace, the merchants and the Guards, not only met with ordinary people here, but they also got along with ordinary people on an equal footing, because all people got coffee in turn. Everyone sat down according to the order of arrival, not according to the usual Ottoman hierarchy.

In the 1650s, the first Christian cafe opened in London. In the mid-17th century, cafes became synonymous with business and news in London, and for a long time became a natural home for businessmen, scientific researchers and intellectuals, providing a unique place for business and politics with overlapping interests. Similar sites were quickly replicated in other towns.

Oxford may be the second place to have a cafe after London. In 1655 or 1656, pharmacist Arthur Tiad opened a shop on Hay Street facing the Church of all Souls. As a pharmacist, he is well suited to provide entertainment and guidance to these naturalists, and one of the rooms in his shop is used as a meeting place for a chemistry club, which is an important forerunner of the Royal Society.

But Tead's cafe soon no longer serves this small group of people, but begins to attract a wider range of customers from universities and cities. By the time the dynasty was restored, Oxford already had several cafes. In 1665, when Parliament moved to Oxford to escape the plague, a house in the seminary was opened up as a cafe to serve MPs. By the late 1660s, cafes had taken root in England. Almost every British city has at least one cafe where people gather to talk about news and do business.

Cafes have also spread overseas, especially in cities with a considerable number of British businessmen, typically run by people of Mediterranean origin. For British businessmen, one of the most profitable trade routes is across the Atlantic to the British North American colony.

One of the earliest cafes outside England was opened by British businessmen in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, in 1670-earlier than cafes in Paris, Venice or Vienna. Boston was then the largest British colonial city in North America.

In September 1690, Benjamin Harris, an ambitious Puritan bookseller, persuaded the Boston town council to issue him a permit to open a shop on King Street, near the downtown trading house, to sell coffee. He is familiar with London cafes and knows the power of coffee and publishing.

In North America, he continued to open bookstores, retailing books imported from London, publishing calendars and other things popular in Boston, all of which were sold directly on the counter of the Cafe London. In 1690, he began publishing a monthly report-- the first monthly report in the American colonies-- called "Public events," but was soon banned by the municipality without permission. In 1695, a competitor appeared-the cafe of Gartrig, Bartov's brother-in-law.

Bartoff was an influential theologian's publisher with a bookstore on the corner of Washington Street and Kurt Street in downtown Boston. Gartrig opened a cafe in the bookstore until 1711. A fire destroyed the whole area.

By combining coffee with news, coffee shopkeepers such as Boston, who run part-time bookstores, have successfully replicated the typical urban culture of London. As a result, since the 1670s, cafes have become the core symbol of Boston's public administration, social life and prosperous business.