Turkey's coffee is prepared and brewed in a unique way that combines a rich communal culture with special preparation and brewing techniques.
During the Ottoman Empire, strong coffee was considered a drug under the strictest interpretation of the Quran. The sultan eventually lifted this prohibition due to its popularity. Turkish coffee was known in Britain and France as early as the mid-17th century. Also in the mid-17th century, an Ottoman Jew opened the first coffee house in Britain. In the mid-1680s, the Turkish ambassador to France threw extravagant parties in which slaves served coffee on gold or silver saucers in porcelain finjans.
In Turkey, it is brewed in a cezve and prepared using very finely ground coffee beans without filtering. It is brewing coffee by boiling very finely ground beans. The Arabica variety is considered best, but a blend or a robusta is also used. The grounds are left in the cup of coffee when served. The coffee may be ground for the very fine grind at home by a manual grinder made for that purpose, or it may be ground to order by coffee merchants around the world, or it can be purchased ready-ground from many coffee shops.
The freshly roasted beans are ground into a fine powder before being added to cold water and sugar and brewed slowly on a stove to form the desired foam. It is served in small cups, alongside a glass of water, and is commonly drunk in coffee houses where people meet to converse, read books, and share news. It is also regarded as a symbol of friendship, hospitality, refinement, and entertainment, and is a symbol of hospitality, friendship, refinement, and entertainment. When friends invite each other for coffee, they are able to engage in intimate talk and share their daily concerns.
Additionally, Turkish coffee plays an important role on social occasions such as engagements and holidays, where formal knowledge and rituals are informally transmitted by family members with observation and participation. It is considered part of Turkish cultural heritage: it is celebrated in literature and song and is an indispensable part of ceremonial occasions. The grounds left in the cup are often used to determine a person's fortune.
Even so, Turkish coffee is a part of everyday life in Turkey, it has been a traditional beverage in the culture for a long time. These coffee grounds are sometimes used for fortune-telling, this practice is called tasseography. After drinking the coffee, the cup is turned into a saucer to cool, and the patterns of the grounds are interpreted.
References
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