caofa

Matteo Benveneto, younger son of a once-powerful merchant family, plans to restore his city to glory by cornering the market in caofa, the hot beverage enjoyed everywhere in the Muslim world but still known in Europe only as “Arabian wine.”

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But merchant Matteo Benveneto is determined to reinvigorate Venetian business by introducing Europe to fresh brewed "arabian wine," or caofa, as the Turks call it, "the elixir that brought fixity of purpose and clarity of mind."

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The Hapsburg lands, of riverine trade, beer, and noisome snow, lay before him; what could it matter if he introduced caofa to such trolls?

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Instead, I proposed to a Jewish merchant that the Jewish communities in European ports be used to promote my caofa.

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If the Jews, whose physicians were at least as good as the Christians, 'had claims to make concerning the _therapeusis_ of caofa, he was prepared to hear them.

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"And you think that the peoples of Christendom will take to caofa like the Turks and the Levantines?"

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And the table erupted in laughter as Matteo looked dumbly at his caofa-powdered fingertips, black as soot though more aromatic.

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The references he found were all in the tales of travelers, as though word of caofa had repeatedly washed to shore but never lodged on land.

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Matteo ground the beans in a mortar while Gaspare flushed out the vessel and poured in fresh water, then carefully took out the tiny sieve -- gold leaf hammered to paper thinness and riddled with needle-sized holes -- that represented his own contribution to the art of brewing caofa.

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One or two asked for caofa, to Matteo's delight; he served with a free hand at the family table, then set up a stall at the Rialto.

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