[Avodah] Concern of bishul akum with coffee

[Zalman Alpert]

> Ostensibly, the prohibition of bishul akum should apply to coffee. As
> previously explained, a cooked food which cannot be eaten raw and is "oleh
> al shulchan melachim" (served at fancy dinners) requires bishul Yisroel.
> Raw coffee beans are inedible, a...

Great example of what DR Hayym Soloveitchik wrote about in his seminal
essay Rupture and Reconstruction.