Most folks who resolved to cut down on coffee this year are driven by the simple desire for self-improvement. But for coffee drinkers in 17th-century Turkey, there was a much more concrete motivating ...

Kha’ir Beg pressured the attending scholars to support a ban on coffee-drinking on the grounds that coffee harmed the body, intoxicated the mind, and encouraged people to gather together and behave ...

Have you ever heard of a sultan who would enter taverns in disguise and personally punish wrongdoers? That was Murad IV, the Iron Sultan, who ruled the Ottoman Empire with an iron fist after ascending ...

Foamy on top, viscous in the middle, sludgy on the bottom -- Turkish coffee is a multilayered and complex thing. Likewise the drink's history, which turns out to be a complicated and no so sweet one.