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.
REVIVISCENCE
Noun
reviviscence (countable and uncountable, plural reviviscences)
The act of reviving, or the state of being revived; renewal of life.
Source: Wiktionary
Rev`i*vis"cence, Rev`i*vis"cen*cy, n.
Definition: The act of reviving, or the state of being revived; renewal of life. In this age we have a sort of reviviscence, not, I fear, of the power, but of a taste for the power, of the early times. Coleridge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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