Making Coffee is More than an Art...

This is definetely the saying of the day...or maybe one of the motto s of my life.

Because of a very funny "incident" that happened today, I decided to study carefully the ART of making coffe and make a thorough analysis.

So, my Latvian collegue Roberts came to my place to have lunch together: Romanian soup. roberts and I both are coffee lovers and after finishing eating, I offered myself to make a coffee. I put water on the cooker and the I add the sugar. And then roberts comes into the kitchen and asks: " Why do you boil the sugar?" Good question. Never thought about it. I had no answed. But the surprise was about to come. His shock and mine as well came when I confessed that I also boil the coffee in water. "WHAT? You BOIL the coffee? How so? Let me get over this!" was his answer. And he kept on staring while I was putting the coffee in the boiling water. I was told that in Latvia they simply put the boiling water over the coffee that is already placed in a cup, then they add the sugar, mix, and the coffe is ready to be drunk.

This is their normal way of cooking the coffee, the Romanian way sounds so weird to him, and maybe weird to others as well. But it is my innate way of doing it...of being an artist of coffee...