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Turkish Coffee
By: Angel/Poyraz Date: November 29, 2011, 11:20 pm
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Turkish Coffee
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�rk kahvesi, Turkish coffe
e
is a coffee making method used by Turks. There is a traditional
way of making and offering of Turkish coffee. It is grinded as
thin as flour, boiled with water and sugar (or without sugar)
slowly in a copper cezve on a brasier and served in small cups.
It is necessary to wait a little for the coffee ground to
settle. Turkish coffee is served with water used to clean the
mouth. Remember that Turkish coffee should be served k�p�kl�
(foamy).
offee was first brought from Yemen to Istanbul by a
coffee-lover Ozdemir Pasa during the reign of Sultan S�leyman I,
Solomon the Magnificient. It soon became one of the tastes in
the saray palace, then in the konak (mansions) and in public.
The first cafe or kahvehane opened in Tahtale and soon spreaded
all over the city. These cafes changed the social life and
consequently people got together in the cafes, played chess,
backgammon, read poetry and talked literature. Turkish coffee
was taken to the rest of the world by the tradesmen and
statesmen visiting ?stanbul and it became a popular Turkish
taste all over the world.
iraathane / kahvehane
hey are caf�s
usually serving coffee, tea or soft drinks. Formerly caf� having
a collection of newspapers magazines for its customers. Also
kahvehane, kahve. The word is derived from an Arabic word kiraat
(to read) and a Farsi word hane (house) meaning a shop where
customers read, drink beverages and chat. Today, with the change
of social and economical life, kiraathane, kahvehane or kahve
has become places where unemployed or retired people go to spend
time. Mostly the customers are male but there are also female
customers in kiraathane in the city center or around the
universities where students spend time, play games or
study.
strong>Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi</strong>
urukahveci
Mehmet Efendi is the most famous brand of Turkish coffee.
www.mehmetefendi.com
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str
ong>Turkish</strong>
Az ?ekerli (kahve) coffee with little sugar
ezve (small copper
pot for making Turkish coffee)
ibek (large stone or wooden
mortar used to make Turkish coffee e.g. dibek kahvesi )
al,
kahve f(ali fortune telling )
strong>G�n�l ne kahve ister ne
kahvehane, g�n�l muhabbet ister kahve bahane.</strong>
(Literally means) The Heart wants neither coffee nor a coffee
shop, the heart wants just a friendly chat, coffee is just an
excuse.
ahverengi (brown, coffee color )
uru kahve (freshly
roasted and ground coffee before brewing, Turkish coffee)
rta
(kahve) medium coffee
ekerli (kahve) coffee with sugar
kahve
alabilir miyim? Can I have a Turkish coffee� ?
kahve
istiyorum. I would like a Turkish coffee�
elve coffee
ground
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strong>Did you know? </strong>
h
e
origin of coffee is Kaffa in Ethiopia?
urkish coffee is the
oldest coffee-making method.
urkish coffee is the only type of
coffee that is served with the coffee ground.
offee was brought
to Turkey in the middle of 16th century and the first coffee
shops opened in Tahtakale by Halepli Hakem in 1552 and Suriyeli
(Syrian) ?emsi in 1554. The coffeshops then were cultural
centers where polite and intellectual people attented.
#Post#: 41692--------------------------------------------------
Turkish Coffee
By: Angel/Poyraz Date: November 29, 2011, 11:24 pm
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YOUR FUTURE IN A CUP OF COFFEE
rinking Turkish coffee is a
centuries-old ritual, enjoyed best in company and sometimes
followed by some fortune telling.
s the poet says,
"Not the
coffee, nor the coffeehouse is the longing of the soul
friend
is what the soul longs for, coffee is just the excuse\".
urkish
coffee differs from percolator and instant varieties, in terms
of the way it is grinded and served. Coffee beans are roasted a
few times and then grinded very fine. Turkish coffee is prepared
in tiny pots called cezve, which can be used to make two cups of
coffee at each shot. For perfect coffee, first put two cups of
water in the cezve, and then add two spoons of Turkish coffee.
When the coffee starts to boil, a thin layer of foam will appear
on the surface of the liquid. Using a spoon, distribute this
foam among the cups. Then boil the coffee in the cezve until it
foams up again, and break it among the cups. This boiling action
gives it its unique taste. Traditionally, each cup of coffee
should be served along with a glass of water. Sugar may be added
to taste into the cezve right before the cooking stage. One will
be asked to specify the amount of sugar when ordering, sweet,
sekerli, medium sweet, orta sekerli, and plain, sade.
et, the
most distinguishing feature of Turkish coffee is neither the way
it is grinded nor the way it is boiled. Turkish coffee is unique
because it allows your fortune to be told by looking at the cup.
This custom of coffee cup reading is at least as old as Turkish
coffee itself, and it is repeated with each and every cup
consumed. While this can be done casually among friends, it is
also possible to consult professionals. So how a coffee cup is
read, how can shapes trapped in a tiny cup reveal the future?
Firstly, the coffee should be drunk only from one side of the
cup. When the coffee is finished, the saucer is placed on top of
the cup, and a wish is made. With the saucer still covering the
top, the cup is held at chest level and turned counter-clockwise
a few times. Following this, the cup is turned upside down onto
the saucer, and left to cool. Sometimes a coin may be placed on
top to make the cup cool faster and to dispel bad omens that
could be read from it. When the coffee cup is cool enough,
someone other that the person who drunk the coffee opens the
cup, and starts interpreting the shapes for divination.
offee
cup reading is a widespread and popular fortune telling method,
which speaks of both the past and the future. For divination
purposes, the coffee cup is considered in two horizontal halves.
The shapes in the lower half talk of the past, whereas shapes in
the top half talk of the future. The shapes that feature on the
right side are usually interpreted positively, while shapes on
the left are interpreted as signs of bad events, enemies,
illnesses, troubles, and the like. According to another belief,
the coffee cup can tell the past but it can only foretell forty
days into the future. Hence the practice of coffee cup reading
cannot interpret the future that lies beyond forty days. In
addition, if, at the reading stage, the cup and the saucer are
firmly stuck, and the person is having trouble separating them,
it is believed that this particular cup should not be read. This
is a case of �prophet�s fortune telling,� where it is assumed
that the person who has drunk from the cup is lucky, and does
not need to have their fortune read. Similarly if a large chunk
of coffee grounds should fall to the saucer as the cup is being
separated, the interpretation is that the owner of the cup will
soon be rid of all troubles and sadness. According to another
standard interpretation, if coffee drips onto the saucer as the
cup is opened, the person who drunk is to soon shed tears.
After the interpretation of the shapes within the cup, it is
time to interpret the shapes in the saucer, where the majority
of the coffee grounds have dripped. The saucer is generally
interpreted as the home of the person whose cup is being read,
and it is said to give clues about their domestic life. If there
are large blank areas on the saucer where the coffee has not
touched, the interpretation is a sense of relief that will be
experienced in the person�s home. If however the shapes on the
saucer are confused and disorderly, this is taken to mean that
there will be a funeral or illness-related crowd in this
person�s house. During the reading, the reader holds the saucer
straight and waits for coffee grounds and coffee to flow. At the
end of the reading, the saucer is flipped over once. At this
stage, if a drop of coffee manages to get behind, and half way
into the saucer�s radius, this is taken as a sign that the wish
made will come true. Another important consideration while
reading someone�s coffee cup is not to say things that will make
a person too happy or too sad.
hether it happens spontaneously
after a meal, or delivered by a professional, the ritual of
having one�s coffee cup read is a widespread divination practice
characteristic to Turkish coffee. Today, in Turkey, the number
of coffeehouses which employ professional coffee cup readers is
on the increase. Hence you enjoy a fine cup of Turkish coffee,
and get mystical glimpses into your future.
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#Post#: 41699--------------------------------------------------
Turkish Coffee
By: Sefer/Selimo Date: November 30, 2011, 12:26 am
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Well i guess Greek coffee and Turkish coffee are the same thing
and both countries read the future in their coffee.My late
grandmother used to make me a cup of coffee and then she would
turn the cup around and tell me my future :th_heartshape:
#Post#: 43096--------------------------------------------------
Turkish Coffee
By: Mer (Abla) Date: December 2, 2011, 6:20 pm
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In Lebanon, we drink Turkish coffee too.
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nd once we\'re finished, we turn it over
and once it\'s dry people who \"know how\" can read the future
in it! lol (for those who believe in such things anyway!)
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#Post#: 43101--------------------------------------------------
Turkish Coffee
By: Sefer/Selimo Date: December 3, 2011, 12:37 am
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So Turkey,Greece and Lebanon all have in common that we drink
the same kind of coffee and some people read the future in it
#Post#: 43126--------------------------------------------------
Turkish Coffee
By: Iv Mrs Erdo?an Ya?aran Date: December 3, 2011, 3:39 am
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We do too Selimcim, but I can`t tell the future
#Post#: 43140--------------------------------------------------
Turkish Coffee
By: ?PeRi? Date: December 3, 2011, 5:35 am
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Many countries drink this type of coffee(i didn\'t
know)
ikipedia:<blockquote data-ipsquote=\"\"
class=\"ipsQuote\">Turkish coffee (also Arabic coffee, Armenian
coffee, Greek coffee, and more) is a method of preparing coffee
where finely powdered roast coffee beans are boiled in a pot
(cezve), with sugar according to taste, before being served into
a cup where the dregs settle. This method of serving coffee is
common throughout the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus,
and the Balkans.[/quote]
have been told however that the
taste isn\'t the same in Greece and Turkey...who knows..
B)!!It\'s common to the old people to drink that coffee..younger
ones not so much,only when they want to have fun telling the
future! ;)
#Post#: 53599--------------------------------------------------
Turkish Coffee
By: penelope Date: January 11, 2012, 4:43 pm
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We also drink Turkish coffee in Croatia, and we prepare it in
similar ways, and we call cezve - ?ezve but it isn`t made of
copper.
#Post#: 53760--------------------------------------------------
Turkish Coffee
By: kelebek Date: January 12, 2012, 12:25 pm
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Turk Kahvesi
rom Biner\'s cooking website
tsp Turkish
Coffee
/2 tsp sugar
Turkish Coffee cup of water, size
pictured above
Turkish coffepot, called \"cezve\", as pictured
above
ut the sugar into the coffepot first, then add the
coffee. Fill the Turkish Coffee cup with water at room
temperature, although leave a bit of room at the top. Pour into
the coffepot.
urn the heat to low. Place the coffeepot on the
stove and slowly stir with a small spoon to ensure the coffee
mixes in with the water. Then stop and wait until bubbles form
at the top. When the bubbles rise, take the coffeepot off the
stove and pour into the cup & serve.
he grinds will sink to the
bottom of your cup, don\'t drink this part. The grinds are
darker and thicker.
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Can i just throw a heaping spoonful of coffee into a pot and
bring it to a boil ( with foam ) ? Will this be the same thing ?
#Post#: 171903--------------------------------------------------
Turkish Coffee
By: Sema Date: July 13, 2012, 12:02 am
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This article was written earlier this year
<strong>
nofollow\"><strong>Drink Coffee? Off With Your
Head!</strong></a>
y ADAM COLE
ost folks who resolved to
cut down on coffee this year are driven by the simple desire for
self-improvement.
ut for coffee drinkers in 17th-century
Turkey, there was a much more concrete motivating force: a big
guy with a sword.
ultan Murad IV, a ruler of the <a href=\"\"
rel=\"external nofollow\">Ottoman Empire</a>, would not have
been a fan of Starbucks. Under his rule, the consumption of
coffee was a capital offense.
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src=\"
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div
style=\"text-align:right;\">Adam Cole/NPR
hough Murad IV banned
tobacco, alcohol and coffee, some say he consumed all three and
his death was the result of alcohol poisoning.
he sultan was so
intent on eradicating coffee that he would disguise himself as a
commoner and stalk the streets of Istanbul with a hundred-pound
broadsword. Unfortunate coffee drinkers were decapitated as they
sipped.
urad IV\'s successor was more lenient. The punishment
for a first offense was a light cudgeling. Caught with coffee a
second time, the perpetrator was sewn into a leather bag and
tossed in the river.
ut people still drank coffee. Even with
the sultan at the front door with a sword and the executioner at
the back door with a sewing kit, they still wanted their daily
cup of joe. And that\'s the history of coffee in a bean skin:
Old habits die hard.
a href=\"\" rel=\"external
nofollow\">Wherever it spread</a>, coffee was popular with the
masses but challenged by the powerful.
"If you look at the
rhetoric about drugs that we\'re dealing with now � like, say,
crack � it\'s very similar to what was said about coffee,\" <a
href=\"\" rel=\"external nofollow\">Stewart Allen</a>, author
of<em> The Devil\'s Cup: Coffee, the Driving Force in
History</em>, tells The Salt<em>.</em>
n Murad\'s Istanbul,
religious leaders preached on street corners that coffee would
inspire indecent behavior. As the bean moved west into Europe,
physicians rallied against it, claiming that coffee would \"dry
up the cerebrospinal fluid\" and cause paralysis.
erhaps the
bawdiest argument against coffee was \"The Womens [sic] Petition
Against Coffee,\" published in England in 1674. Brimming with
innuendos that would make Shakespeare blush, the six-page
manifesto blamed coffee for every type of impotence.
img
src=\"
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rel=\"external nofollow\">Enlarge</a><div
style=\"text-align:right;\">Adam Cole/NPR
he male response in
defense of coffee was just as heavy-handed and, predictably,
even more lewd.
ne of the more repeatable passages:
.. the
Excessive use of that Newfangled, Abominable, Heathenish Liquor
called COFFEE, which Riffling Nature of her Choicest
<em></em><em>Treasures</em><em></em>, and
<em></em><em>Drying</em><em></em> up the <em></em><em>Radical
Moisture</em><em></em>, has so
<em></em><em>Eunucht</em><em></em> our Husbands that they are
become as unfruitful as those <em></em><em>Desarts</em><em></em>
whence that unhappy<em></em><em>Berry</em><em></em> is said to
be brought.
onarchs and tyrants publicly argued that coffee was
poison for the bodies and souls of their subjects, but <a
href=\"\" rel=\"external nofollow\">Mark Pendergrast</a> �
author of <em>Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It
Transformed Our World</em> � says their real concern was
political.
div style=\"margin-left:1.125px;\">
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style=\"margin-left:1.125px;\">
strong></strong><div
style=\"margin-left:1.125px;\"><strong>
e observed that the
people drinking alcohol would just get drunk and sing and be
jolly, whereas the people drinking coffee remained sober and
plotted against the government.</strong><strong></strong><div
style=\"margin-left:1.125px;\">
em><strong></strong></em><div
style=\"margin-left:1.125px;\"><em><strong>
Stewart
Allen</strong></em><em><strong></strong></em>
"Coffee has a
tendency to loosen people\'s imaginations ... and mouths,\" he
tells The Salt.
nd inventive, chatty citizens scare
dictators.
ccording to one story, an Ottoman Grand Vizier
secretly visited a coffeehouse in Istanbul.
"He observed that
the people drinking alcohol would just get drunk and sing and be
jolly, whereas the people drinking coffee remained sober and
plotted against the government,\" says Allen.
offee fueled
dissent � not just in the Ottoman Empire but all through the
Western world. The French and American Revolutions were planned,
in part, in the dark corners of coffeehouses. In Germany, a
fearful Frederick the Great demanded that Germans switch from
coffee to beer. He sent soldiers sniffing through the streets,
searching for the slightest whiff of the illegal bean.
n
England, King Charles II issued an order to shut down all
coffeehouses after he traced some clever but seditious poetry to
them. The backlash was throne-shaking. In just 11 days, Charles
reversed his ruling.
"I think maybe he recalled that they had
beheaded his father,\" Pendergrast says. \"He didn\'t want to
stir up too much trouble.\"
nd so coffee took its place in the
center of culture. Where so many other underground movements �
religious, political, even<a href=\"\" rel=\"external
nofollow\">musical</a> � were squashed, coffee managed to go
mainstream.
ccording to legend, even the Pope Clement VIII
couldn\'t resist coffee\'s charms. After inspecting the drink,
he remarked to his skeptical advisers, \"Why, this Satan\'s
drink is so delicious that it would be a pity to let the
infidels have exclusive use of it.\"
img
src=\"
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a href=\"\"
rel=\"external nofollow\">Enlarge</a><div
style=\"text-align:right;\">Adam Cole/NPR
apal advisers told
Pope Clement VIII that coffee was the antithesis of communion
wine. He disagreed, and laid the foundation for the strictest of
Catholic traditions: coffee hour.
o to all you caffeine-fasters
and New Year\'s resolvers, I say good luck. I hope you have more
discipline than the pope and more strength than the Ottoman
Empire.
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