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History, heritage, and the why.
- Where the name Bunchum comes fromFoundationThe name Bunchum traces to al-Razi, the Persian physician behind the earliest known medical reference to coffee, around 922 CE.
- A short history of brewed coffeeFoundationHow coffee became the drink in your cup: from Sufi monasteries in 15th-century Yemen to the coffeehouses of the Ottoman cities, on to Europe, the plantation century, and the specialty turn.