It is especially evident in the big cities, where it seems that a cafe can be found on every street corner.
Drinkers are no longer content with the institutional blend found in the supermarket.
We have become more discriminating in what kind of bean we buy, and the type of coffee drink. There's a world beyond drip coffee, occupied by espresso drinks of every order. Arab traders bring coffee back to their homeland and cultivate the plant for the first time on plantations. The world's first coffee shop, Kiv Han, opens there in 1475. Turkish law makes it legal for a woman to divorce her husband if he fails to provide her with her daily quota of coffee.