Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
EPISPASTICS
Noun
epispastics
plural of epispastic
Source: Wiktionary
EPISPASTIC
Ep"i*spas"tic, a. Etym: [Gr. Ă©pispastique.] (Med.)
Definition: Attracting the humors to the skin; exciting action in the skin; blistering.
Ep"i*spas"tic, n. (Med.)
Definition: An external application to the skin, which produces a puriform or serous discharge by exciting inflammation; a vesicatory.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ROOTS
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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