Valerie Wallace has come up with a niche that needs filling on the Residents Website:
Interesting quotes about or from interesting people or about historical or contemporary happenings or oddities.
And Valerie has provide the first one, about a particular new fad of the seventeenth century in England. Seems in 1657, a London court prosecuted James Farr, a Barber:
“ . . . for making and selling a drink called coffee whereby in making the same he annoyeth his neighbors by evil smells.”
We wonder if Starbucks knows about this.
Valerie discovered the incident in Jonathan Healey’s The Blazing World: A History of Revolutionary England 1603 - 1689