Tuesday, October 26, 2004


regional coffee culture, part xxvii

"grooms to be are offered [coffee] in turkey by potential wives and if the man places the empty cup back on a tray afterwards without producing gold or money, he is betrothed to the woman who served him."

ah, the travails of prince charles. but you have to feel sorry for a guy whose only purpose in life is to sit around and wait for his mother to die. . .

and speaking of middle-eastern coffee culture, since we here at bccy will take any opportunity to drink coffee and eat chocolate, we are keen on everybody's holidays. thus i was very interested to see what special java beverages were catching on for this year's ramadan celebration.

since it's obviously still kinda warm in many middle-eastern countries, the big beverages are going to be iced: the surprise is how closely these drinks mirror what's popular here in the u.s.a.

dulce de leche: now that i wouldn't have expected, that a latino flavor would be sweeping the middle east. also, a mexican chocolate and vanilla syrup concotion!

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