The Story of British Trade And Industry

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It was fitting that while the country was under the influence of sobriety there should have been introduced some of those soothing beverages which have ever since been in high favour in English homes — coffee, chocolate (or cocoa), and tea. The first coffee-house in England was opened in 1652, by Pasqua Rossie, a Greek merchant. The venture was so suc- cessful that other coffee-houses were soon estab- lished, and the importation of the coffee berry became a profitable business. Chocolate was in
...- troduced shortly afterwards, as may be gathered from an advertisement pubHshed in the Public Advertiser of June i6th, 1657, containing the intimation that " in Bishopsgate Street, in Queen's Head Alley, at a Frenchman's house, is an excellent West India drink called Chocolate to be sold, where you may have it ready at any time, and also unmade at reasonable rates. " Chocolate, in its purer state of cocoa, became a fashionable drink, but the high price at which it was sold prevented its becoming as popular as coffee.

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