How popular and widespread was coffee consumption in Europe prior to the New World and the large coffee plantations established therein?
>The earliest substantiated evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree is from the 15th century, in the Sufi monasteries of Yemen. By the 16th century, it had reached the rest of the Middle East, Persia, Turkey, Horn of Africa, and northern Africa. Coffee then spread to the Balkans, Italy and to the rest of Europe, to Indonesia and then to America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_coffee#Europe
>>1706652
When were plantations established there? All I remember about coffee history in Europe is that in central Europe coffee got popular after lifting the Ottoman siege of Vienna when christian coalition captured Turkish supplies which were unsurprisingly full of the beans.
>>1706652
Coffee became popular in the 16th century.
>>1707431
But europeans already traded for it with the ottomans before that.
>>1707445
Check that. The 17th was the century of coffee explosion in Europe. Then it became more or less staple.