Philip Thrift wrote:
>
> Not a new question; but I am interested in
> comments on the following.
>
> >From http://www.gardfoods.com/coffee/coffee.coffee.htm:
>
> "Coffee beans were chewed raw for centuries in Ethiopia and Yemen.
> Excavations in the Ethiopian highlands where coffee grows wild indicates
> human gathers have been eating coffee berries over a 100,000 years. The
> content. Being sweet, being nutritious, and seeds being in 100,000 year old
> human faeces supports this theory."
I was under an impression that coffee was a New World food. I guess I was
wrong.
Ilya