The flavour of coffee in palaces and kafenhauses of 18th-century Vilnius
The flavour of coffee in palaces and kafenhauses of 18th-century Vilnius Eugenijus Saviščevas, Orbis Lituaniae2021.07.04 10:00 Cafe in Vilnius today / D. Umbrasas/LRT It’s early morning, June 1786. Ludwika Byszewska, a noble lady from Warsaw, is visiting Vilnius and opens her diary to write a few lines: “Since I agreed to accompany the respectable mister Strecki to Antakalnis at four in the morning, I woke up at three, following Voltaire’s advice drank a cup of black coffee, and was quite ready.” The Voltairian method says that you may start enjoying coffee at five in the morning an...
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