Melvyn Bragg

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In Our Time · Archive: Coffee · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

So right.

By what time and with what effect had coffee spread into the Ottoman Empire?

And it's just for general trading, people heard of it and wanted it.

But

Can you give us some idea when this trade got a bit of traction?

It seems to develop rather slowly.

But you've talked about the Yemen and move moving up in about about when?

Which century?

Did the Ottoman Empire take it as its n as its drink quite soon or did that again take a bit of time?

Jonathan Morris, how did coffee start to spread west from the Ottoman Empire?

How important was it that coffee was non alcoholic?

And how did it begin to s spread west from the Ottoman Empire?

supposed to cure?

record any record kept it with the effect?

You use the term marketing.

How was it marketed in the West?

So it flows out of the Ottoman Empire and then you say, Well

This keeps you awake, alcohol sent you to sleep.

We're against alcohol anyway, so take this and you'll be able to pray more, and that'll be good for us and good for you and so on.

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