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I'd never seen Moka spelled as Mocha, but it's unsurprising that they come from the same word. Mocha was basically synonymous with coffee for three centuries. W
by Talanes 7y ago
I'd never seen Moka spelled as Mocha, but it's unsurprising that they come from the same word. Mocha was basically synonymous with coffee for three centuries. What a different world it must have been when a city could completely control the market on it's specialty crop.
- jacobolus 7y agoHere’s a French map from 1764 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Bellin_-_Plan_de_la_Ville_de_Moka.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Bellin_-...