Steven Johnson in his TED Talk "Where good ideas come from" tells us the coffee house changed history. Prior to the advent of the British cof fee house, alcohol was the healthy drink of choice. As water was contaminated, people had beer for breakfast, wine for lunch and gin for dinner. This meant that most of the time, most people were drunk. With the importation of coffee and the opening of the coffee house, people not only drank less alcohol but they congregated in public places to drink their coffee.
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