Turkey's famous product that represents its culture is coffee. It is totally different than American coffee in many ways. First of all Turks do not drink coffee in a plastic cup or standing up. Drinking coffee in Turkey is a way to have a conversation with someone, an enjoyable time of sitting and chatting. They even have a saying that when you invite someone for coffee, that you will remember that bonding time you had with him while drinking your coffee for forty years. In America you just go in a Starbucks or a Costa cafe for five minutes pick up your coffee and then you just go wherever you have to go either at work, home or anywhere else. Turkish coffee is normally prepared using a narrow-topped small boiling pot called an kanaka, a teaspoon and a heating apparatus. The ingredients are finely ground coffee, sometimes cardamo, cold water and maybe sugar. It is served in a demitasse. Some modern cups do have handles; traditional cups did not, and coffee was drunk either by handling the cup with the fingertips or, more often, by placing the cup in a zarf, a metal container with a handle.Turks drink their coffee in a round ceramic little cup. Their coffee is not made with a machine like American coffee but it is prepared by boiling finely powdered roast coffee beans in a pot.
In Turkey coffee is very important and it is a way of meeting new people and get to know them. It is very similar to my country Cyprus, the cups are quite similar and the way we make coffee. We also like to sit and chat while we drink our coffee. In Greece coffee was called Turkish coffee due to the Greco-Turkish relationship but the named changed after the Turkish invasion in Cyprus.
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