Fazekas Éva: A fekete leves, a kávéfőzés története, időszaki kiállítás, 2010. április 23 - 2010. október 25, a Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum, a Magyar Műszaki és Közlekedési Múzeum és a Fazekas & Kimmel Gyűjtemény közös időszaki kiállítása (Budapest, Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum, 2010)
Noémi Saly: FROM COFFEE "CHERRIES" TO THE "BLACK SOUP"
Kávézó török. 18. századi metszet Coffee drinking Turk, 18 l h-century engraving investigate what the goats had eaten. They prepared a decoction of the collected plants, and sampled it. And see! The seed of one of the berries did not allow them sleep either! What an excellent help with the night vigil, prayer and meditation... And as the "sufi" communities were also visited by secular people interested in mystics, the news concerning the blessing of the drink soon got around. When all this might have happened and if it really happened, you do not know. The legend also has other variants, in which, e. g. ancient Christians, Copts appear instead of "sufis", and the goat-herd is known by name, a. s. o. However, it is true that the Arab philosopher and physician Avicenna mentioned and used coffee as a medicine as early as in the year 1 000 A.D. Kávéház Viddinben. A Magyarország és a Nagyvilág című lapból. MKVM Coffee house in Vidin. From the journal "Hungary and the Great World", MKVM According to another legend, the magic "nectar" was sent by Allah himself via archangel Gabriel to his seriously ill prophet Mohammed. The prophet was cured by it to such an extent that, on the same day, he threw 40 knights out of their saddles, and flew 40 women to the seventh heaven. He had given the drink the name of "quawa", which then has spread - adapted to the local languages - all over the world. The habit formed in the monks' communities to have coffee in company, while talking, also remained with seculars. Caffeine made talks animated: in Мекка a coffee-house was closed as soon as in the 1400s for customers heaping insults on the caliph. Mugs and fin/ans The simplest and most ancient method of preparing coffee is boiling. On the Balkan peninsula and in the Arabic world but also elsewhere, in many places according to the "Turkish" procedure - the flourfine milling product is boiled in water, then one third of it is 74
