coffee

I had coffee with my breakfast this morning and noticed how
full-flavored and strong the taste was. The housekeeper/cook showed me
the stovetop Italian-made coffee maker she used to make coffee. It is a
pecolator mechanism where two chambers--top and bottom--fit together,
and in the middle is coffee packed into a funnel-like cup (for a better
description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_percolator). Boiling
water is forced up through the grounds, bubbling dark, rich coffee
through a little chimney in the top chamber ready to be poured into your
coffee cup. The housekeeper suggested copious amounts of milk and sugar,
which I also tried and enjoyed, but I still prefer my coffee black.
Later this evening I heard the guest house will hold a coffee ceremony
where they roast green coffee beans into a few cups of coffee. More on
that later I suppose.