The Coffee-House
Publisher: Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: September 11, 2003
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780304364039
Subjects: Food & Drink / Cookery
First sentence: Anchoring below the customs house steps at Constantinople on the evening of 28 September 1610, the Armado, out of Simo, a Greek sponge divers' bark not much larger than a Gravesend wherry, must have made a singularly unimposing impression on the officers of the Sublime Porte.