At the Amsterdam
Steven Shapin: A Wakefull and Civill Drink, 20 April 2006
The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffee House
by Brian Cowan.
Yale, 364 pp., £25, January 2006,0 300 10666 1 Show More
by Brian Cowan.
Yale, 364 pp., £25, January 2006,
Coffee House: A Cultural History
by Markman Ellis.
Phoenix, 304 pp., £8.99, November 2005,0 7538 1898 1 Show More
by Markman Ellis.
Phoenix, 304 pp., £8.99, November 2005,
“... I went to a coffee house this morning. I had a ‘grande’ latte. It cost me $3.20. Sometimes I carry the coffee with me to work in a cardboard cup; this time I sat in the coffee house and drank it while reading the newspaper. I went by myself and did not have a conversation with any of the other customers – several of whom I vaguely recognised but most of whom were strangers ... ”