Why Do We Have So Many Words For Coffee.... But So Few For Love?

Ottoman Lady Drinking Coffee, Pera Museum, inspired by Cornelis de Bruyn, Dutch painter and traveller

In one of my novels, The Bastard of Istanbul, I imagined a lively and bustling cafe in a cosmopolitan quarter of the old city, a quirky hangout spot for poets, writers, artists and dreamers. I named it Cafe Kundera. The appellation was a personal, liter…