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Does the author seriously assume that before coffee, people of the Ottoman empire had no public place for casual gatherings? Had he never heard of hookahs?
by golergka 7y ago
Does the author seriously assume that before coffee, people of the Ottoman empire had no public place for casual gatherings?
Had he never heard of hookahs?
- kingofpandora 7y agoOr bathhouses? Or mosques? Or gardens? It's a fairly absurd claim that the author makes.
- Mediterraneo10 7y agoTobacco arrived in the Ottoman Empire at around the same time as coffee, so no, hookah-smoking venues were not really around before coffeehouses.