On 31st when we came home from school, she changed in her black clothes, put her wig and the hat, took the broom in her hand and was ready to knock on the door of our downstairs neighbor. Sander was dressed all in red; was the little devil :-) He cleaned the floor of the neighbor's kitchen with his sister's broom :-)
Yesterday I was in a dream shop for all chocolate lovers: Slitti Café, in Monsummano (Pistoia). You enter the shop and begin breathing in coffee and chocolate. They produce different types of chocolate and offer quality coffee. On the walls there were the clips of newspaper articles in different languages about Slitti products. They are world famous. I couldn't help taking a couple of pictures in the shop.
On their coffee stand there was a bag of very particular coffee beans: the kopi luwak, the most expensive coffee in the world. On the information leaflet it said that kopi luwak is the rarest coffee, which originates from the Sumatra island and is produced in very small quantities. It is nothing but coffee berries eaten and passed through the digestive system of a local animal called luwak. This animal goes during the night into the best coffee plantations and feeds on the sweetest and ripest berries selecting them one by one. The gastric juices that favor its digestion create a fermentation process that is absolutely unique for coffee, thus explaining its totally different and original taste. The beans, once swallowed and then expelled by this small marsupial, are collected from earth in these plantations and then disinfected, the coats containing the beans are broken and beans washed, dried and packed into 20 kg bags. The taste of the coffee from these beans is extremely thick, characterized by a flavor of cacao, aromatic herbs and bitter orange marmalade.
After reading this I took a last look at the bag containing the kopi luwak beans, with a price tag of over 600 Euros a kg. I don't think I will be able to taste that coffee, even if it is offered for free....
Hatirlarsin bizim ailede kahve seromoniyle icilir:))Anneannem once cekirdek kahveyi alir sonra onu ozel tavasinda kavurur ve ozel kahve degirmeni ile bir olcu ceker;o bitince yeniden ayni seromoni tekrarlanirdi;oyle hazir cekilmis kahve hele de marketten hic alinmazdi;sen o zamanlar anneannemin kavrulmus kahvelerini cekilmeden ondan gizli asirir yerdin;kavrulmus cekirdekleri;sanirim ancak Iris;in yasinda filandin bunu yaparken;yazini okuyunca o gunler geldi aklima;yaaa yaslaniyorum ben galiba;cok sey hatirlamaya basladim yahu:))))
ReplyDeleteWe need to get this. I should give couple concerts right now to be able efford my luwak habits!!!! :oP
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Melek: hayatim, hatirlamaz miyimmm. O taze taze kavrulan kahvenin kokusu burnumda sanki... Aci kahve cekirdeklerini nasil da yerdim hala anlayabilmis degilim aslinda ;)
ReplyDeleteElif: I thought you didn't drink coffee :-P If you want, I can buy a package for you, they had 100 gr packages :-)