King Louis XIV (1638 –1715) was at the height of his reign when, in 1685, his butt started to hurt. A lot. His royal physicians tried all kinds of treatments, endeavoring to shrink the swelling, but finally, after months of… Read More
The port city of Mocha, in Yemen, was a major coffee market from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. Mocha’s coffee was not a mocha-coffee blend, the way we know mocha today.