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we came from Las Vegas to share some

part of our culture with you we're going

to demonstrat­ing how to make turkish

coffee tonight you are probably

wondering what Turkish coffee need has

to do with friendship dinner and

hopefully by the end of that our

presentati­on you'll be able to put the

two together as a matter of fact

friendship and coffee offering and

accepting the coffee goes hand in hand

in turkey when we would like to praise

someone we would praise that person as

his coffee could be drink or when we

went to honor someone we say to them I

will have your cup of coffee it's an

honor for the one who offers it and it's

so privileged for the ones who accepted

but there is unspoken fact in there

someone which is very common in Turkey

for us to use a lot of unspoken ways to

communicat­e certain messages and

offering Turkish coffee is one of those

when we offer coffee to our guests in

fact we are offering them our friendship

it's very important aspect of our

hospitalit­y

we've been married several years and you

know we're really enjoying this tonight

because when we have dinner every night

it's like a friendship dinner it's a

it's a time for us to share our

culture's you know more weeks here with

us this evening and we know that

drinking coffee is not something that

resonates with them we hope they'll

forgive us our transgress­ion in that

regard and if you do pay attention

closely you may find out in the end we

don't actually think coffee is all that

important after all now I I'm doubly

honored that the Pacific foundation

asked me to be part of this tonight

because i'm not from her i'm only

turkish by associatio­n i guess they

figured that I had drunk enough Turkish

coffee or you could say I drank the

kool-aid so I could participat­e

Coffee became very important part of

daily living and part of the customs it

came so important that it actually

became part of our language and the what

we call breakfast is cafe altar which

became kahvalti so breakfast actually

became in Turkish culture something that

we eat just so we can have the coffee

afterwards because Vanessa's Turkish

coffee is not something you have at the

meal you have your coffee after a

wonderful meal and Turkish meals are

normally very lots of courses and it's

it takes place and those of you who went

to Turkey probably found out so it takes

a long time for half your dinner and

after dinner enjoying some friendship

and your company then you will have your

Turkish coffee Turkish coffee is an

adult drink kids do not drink Turkish

coffee my mother used to tell me I would

grow a mustache if I'd head cup

you have to be certain age to enjoy the

pleasures of coffee

but you know to make things more

challengin­g you're supposed to ask your

guests how they would like their coffee

and there's four levels okay it

depending on the level of the sugar you

put in the coffee so you can make it

sweet a lot of sugar you can make it a

little sweet medium and another

challengin­g thing is that it's cooked

very very slowly over very very low fire

in fact we have a saying in Turkey that

we say Vivienne John cavanon could kill

harder meaning that a cup of coffee is

remembered for 40 years without really

telling you

and you're going to see her pour the

coffee a little bit later when it

reaches just the right point and all

that powder the coffee is going to come

with it and that makes for a little

different drinking experience because

contrary to what we do in the US and I

snuck this up here on the stage okay

Starbucks right in the US you grab a

gallon of coffee okay you pop a lid on

the top of it so you won't spill it

while you're shaking it around driving

down the road with you know one hand on

your cell phone and one hand on your

coffee right and you're bouncing the

coffee around and all those grounds

would be all stirred up there and as you

drink you get that stuff stuck in your

teeth and you don't want to do that so

Turkish coffee is not made for driving

my mother was never pleased with the way

I ought make the coffee in fact she

thought I meant never be able to marry a

turkey one now now you have to

understand you have to understand how

coffee is part of Turkish marriage

because traditiona­lly speaking coffee is

a very important part of the which we

call it the courtship exercise and when

a young man has his eye on a young lady

what happens is is the young man and his

family go to visit the young lady and

her family and the family's all sit

around and talk while the young lady

gets to go into the kitchen and make

coffee and of course the family will be

judging how good the coffee is and the

young man will be also because that

coffee represents all of the young

lady's domestic capabiliti­es

but as in most things that men find out

is the woman has the last word because

remember each cup of coffee is served

separately and a different way so by

changing the amount of sugar that's in

the coffee the young woman can indicate

to the young man and nobody else knows

because he's the only one drinking that

cup you know can indicate her level of

pleasure in the fact that he's come

seeking her hand in marriage and in fact

if she really is not interested salt can

be substitute­d for sure

and it's normally served with a glass

full of water the water is to be drank

before you cleanse your palate there you

go right there and then it's a ritual in

a ceremony because it really really

forces you to sit down together and have

quality time together and that's what

this is all about Turkish coffee is

actually just an excuse

were

or you know that there's really only one

thing I enjoy more than drinking your

coffee and that's spending my time with

you a nice

you know coffee becomes more than just a

cup of coffee when it's cooked by the

loved one for the lover or when it

served to a dead by his little girl for

the first time or serve to the groom

candidates on the night of their

proposal by the young lady we're shared

by an old couple celebratin­g their 50th

looking at old family photos on their

back porch or shared by a couple of

childhood best friends when they meet

again after many years there's a poem

that my husband likes to the Turkish it

goes something like this you know nigga

face such Nick after honey you need to

be reduced to stash cafe behind in

English in English that is the higher

the heart desires neither coffee nor

coffeehous­e the heart desires a devoted

friend Coffee is but an excuse thank you

very much

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