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A treatise concerning the properties and effects of coffee (1792)
- extr 4y agoThis reminded me of one my favorite essays on the subject, "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee" by Honoré de Balzac in the 1830s https://voxpopulisphere.com/2016/01/17/honore-de-balzac-the-pleasures-and-pains-of-coffee/ https://voxpopulisphere.com/2016/01/17/honore-de-balzac-the-...
- quickthrower2 4y agoWith the increasingly strong formulations he would have loved espresso then! Think that wasn’t invented until early 1900s. That said immersion brewing probably gives your more caffeine in total. Edit might have been earlier I was thinking of a specific espresso machine.
- lostlogin 4y agoIt isn't the strongest brew, but the e61 group head is just so great for making espresso. More recent designs and modified e61s have advantages, but the ways it can be used, the availability of parts and the quality of the brew are pretty great. No software or complex electronics for my coffee thanks (just lots of mechanical complexity). The way the the Faema e61 looks doesn't hurt either, only rivalled by the lever action Urania in my opinion.
- dang 4y agoDiscussed a few times here: The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22509223 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22509223 - March 2020 (21 comments) The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13647098 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13647098 - Feb 2017 (75 comments) “The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee” by Honore de Balzac - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10515523 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10515523 - Nov 2015 (1 comment) The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7921691 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7921691 - June 2014 (37 comments) “The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2880196 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2880196 - Aug 2011 (21 comments)
- extr 4y agoHaha, perhaps one of these is where I originally saw it!
- achr2 4y agoWe have a decent coffee chain in Ontario named Balzac’s, that started in Stratford. I hadn’t known this connection. Thanks!
- leobg 4y agoInteresting. So one or two weeks of consumption. And then, I suppose several weeks of abstinence?
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- snvzz 4y ago*sips*
- snvzz 4y agohttps://archive.org/details/2762087R.nlm.nih.gov https://archive.org/details/2762087R.nlm.nih.gov
- hierophantos 4y agoAnother favorite is Bach's Coffee Cantata....
- leobg 4y agoExactly 60 beans per cup was his recipe, I believe. Don’t know how big his cup was, though. (Or was that Beethoven?)
- pengaru 4y agoPSA: lions mane supplements seem to have an antidote effect on the negative aspects of excess caffeine consumption (jitters, irritability, shortness of temper, general agro-ness). Also seems to largely eliminate the headaches experienced in withdrawal. I never used to consume caffeine, now it's possibly my favorite mind-altering drug when combined with this otherwise seemingly pointless supplement.
- matisseverduyn 4y agoThose are all vitamin / mineral / electrolyte related symptoms (fairly serious long-term), and probably shouldn't be shrugged off or "flex-sealed" with drugs.
- pengaru 4y ago> Those are all vitamin / mineral / electrolyte related symptoms (fairly serious long-term), and probably shouldn't be shrugged off or "flex-sealed" with drugs. Oh please, when they're nonexistent except when you've downed six+ shots of espresso it's pretty clearly acute side effects of abusing the drug.
- matisseverduyn 4y agoI learned this lesson the hard way after a decade of thinking that way too. But you sound pretty sure of yourself!
- ClassyJacket 4y agoSource? I don't believe that's true. Caffeine is a central nervous system stimulant, I believe the physical effects and anxiety are caused directly.
- matisseverduyn 4y agoRAAS (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK470410 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK470410). Norepinephrine / cortisol, bone homeostasis / resorption. As well as smaller issues that, over time, cause anemia, and wreck your small intestine, liver, kidneys, pancreas, (ability to digest fats, absorb b-vitamins and fat-soluble vitamins).
- hsn915 4y agoReally hard to read with s printed like f
- DarkmSparks 4y agoit seems like there is a story there, its not just like, it seems to be the same character?
- yorwba 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
- ggm 4y agoThe default Chrome typography is not kind to the eye in that article, lacking the descender of the integral sign form of the sigil. It looks far too like "f" which is amusingly noted as a typographical issue with the letter and probably why it fell out of use with the rise of movable type printing, and it's persistence in hand written text.
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- dr_dshiv 4y agoIt takes about 10 minutes and then your brain learns to read it semifluently. FYI.
- thomassmith65 4y agoOn a related subject, there is an early mention of English tea-drinking in Samuel Pepys' diary: Tuesday 25 September 1660: And afterwards I did send for a cup of tee (a China drink) of which I never had drank before, and went away. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1660/09/25/ https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1660/09/25/