Ground Coffee – [ Grandmother, grandfather and grandson]

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Ground Coffee, the story of:

Grandmother, grandfather and grandson.

There are three stones, representing grandmother, grandfather and grandson, which form the traditional firewood stove where coffee is roasted. On top of them is placed an iron pan, fragrant and very scorched, which gives the coffee bean the precise roasting point before its minced.

This pot that in the countryside they call it The Spirit Awakener retains the characteristic smell of the toasted coffee beans since it is only used for this task.

This is the story of a broken pot and a firewood stove that didn’t want to light fire up.

The stove was filled with damp, dry, very dry pieces of wood, all type of woods and didn’t light fire. They looked for wood from all kinds of trees, charcoals, they brought big pieces of a burning charcoal from wood burning stoves of neighbors’ kitchen, and nothing worked. The stove didn’t light the fire. All the attention on that morning of roasting was on the three stones that didn’t want to light any fire and none of the people present paid attention to the spirit awakener pot.

The cause of this disaster began with a visit who came to the house and to whom, among other gifts, was promised a kilo of coffee, roasted in a firewood stove; work they planned to do that morning when they found the stove and the pot angry with each other in bad love.

The night before, after dinner, the visitor saw the over used and scorched pot hanging over the kitchen wall, close to where the three stones were, to make a good impression with the hosts, he began to scrub it until it was shiny, like new. So, the spirit awakener that night lost its memory; that balsamic presence of iron that give then pleasure enhancing the flavors of the food they prepared in the kitchen, although it shone in the room, was now something that made the taste of the morning bitter.

Fortunately, the grandparents were still alive and as they said, “A good taste comes wrapped in the knowledge of someone who knows he is loved”. – “Bring the pot” said the grandparents, the little boy’s hands showed his grandparents a shining artifact, stripped of the scorch that sits at the bottom of the pot, that contained the mystery of a unique flavor. The old man took The Spirit Awakener and spoke to it with a soft and lovely voice, then gave the grandson ground coffee to scrub it gently and respectfully.

The aroma of the coffee they roasted and the taste of the drink they later enjoyed on that occasion was never forgotten.

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