N o premodern poet praised coffee with greater passion than the North African jurist-poet Abu al-Fath al-Tunisi (d.1576). As ...

Kha’ir Beg pressured the attending scholars to support a ban on coffee-drinking on the grounds that coffee harmed the body, ...

An epic new book pours over four centuries of gorgeous coffeemakers–designs driven by our need to get out of bed in the morning. These days, our coffee is usually spat from a black plastic machine ...

[Editor's note: For a summary of coffee history with a bit less imagination—Giorgio is on to something when he imagines the first reactions that led to the cultivation and popularization of a wild ...

Nicole Estaphan explores the history of coffee in Boston (was it coffee, not tea, that fueled the Revolution?) and meets the coffee trailblazer who founded the late, great Coffee Connection. Learn the ...

Coffee must have been the secret weapon of Greek, Slav, and Albanian mercenary units, the stratioti, that fought together ...

Do you ever stop to think about where your morning cup of joe comes from? As someone who relies on coffee to function on a daily basis, I decided to dive into the history of coffee and explore its ...

The oldest coffee company in the United States has been continuously roasting beans for decades. Here's the history of this ...