The first coffee shop in the world

Coffee was an exclusive Arab drink for more than 1,000 years from the 7th century AD to the 17th century. With the gradual development of the commodity society, the Arabs brought the habit of drinking coffee to the countries and regions where they did business, about from the Balkans to Spain, and then to North Africa, and then the Roman Empire gradually transferred the Islamic world. The word coffee is Kaveh in Constantinople, Cafe in France and Coffee in England.

According to written records, public coffee shops first appeared in the world in the 16th century, and coffee shops appeared in Cairo and Istanbul. In 1555, two Syrians opened the first public coffee shop in Istanbul. It soon became popular in all walks of life. Soon, Turkish businessmen also opened several coffee shops in Istanbul. At the beginning of the 17th century, coffee was brought to Italy and England.

In 1637, a Crete scholar named Canopius made a cup of coffee in the office of the University of Oxford, which was recorded as the first coffee drinker in England. In 1650, a Jew named Jacob opened England's first Turkish coffee shop in Oxford, and Pope Benedict XV established an English-style coffee shop in Quirinal in 1740 as a healthy substitute for many alcoholics and alcoholics at the time.

The Turkish coffee shop opened by Jacob in Oxford in 1650 is the earliest written coffee shop in Europe. The coffee shop in Italy may have appeared earlier, but unfortunately there is no clear written record. This is because at that time many European countries had different understanding of coffee or thought that coffee was harmful to health, or that coffee houses were too easy to spread all kinds of news and party discussions, and conspired to rebel. In historical records, popes, kings and emperors of many European countries have ordered a strict ban on coffee. For example, Charles II of England outlawed coffee shops in 1675, saying that they were "hotbeds of incendiary speech and rude attacks on upper-class people". Louis XIV of France despised and refused coffee when he first saw coffee when he met the Ottoman ambassador on December 4, 1669. The king of Sweden banned both coffee and tea in 1756, believing that both drinks were harmful to health. Switzerland has a strange attitude towards coffee. It is regarded as an "evil", but it is allowed to be drunk by urban residents, but rural farmers are prohibited from drinking "this evil that weakens their physical strength." on January 21, 1781, Frederick the Great of Germany signed a bill prohibiting the roasting, private storage and sale of coffee without permission. Coffee can only be roasted and collected by relevant state agencies, and coffee is restricted to the upper class.