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Coffee and Coffee Drinks

Beverages built on brewed or espresso coffee as the defining ingredient. Belongs here: Cappuccino, Coffee, Espresso, Irish Coffee, Latte, Turkish Coffee. Does not belong here: a tea-based drink, grouped separately, or the foodtradition of coffee cultivation and roasting itself, which is a foodtradition entity.

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Era of EmergenceSourced to the subject's own account
1450 CE 1
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1. Coffee (Wikipedia)
WikipediaCoffee, History section, Sufi Yemen
Quote, Coffee, History section, Sufi Yemen
The earliest reports of coffee drinking pertain to the plant's use among the Sufis of Yemen in southern Arabia in the middle of the 15th century.
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