Coffee or other drinks ordered without food always come with free tapas to snack on. Potato chips are not common, but this place must have known Ann's heart - and that is what she got along with her Aquarius, which is sort of like a sports drink, but tastes good.
I got a little muffin, called a magdalena in Spanish, with my café con leche (coffee with milk, sort of like a flat white), a staple of my existence here. Available wherever food is served, espresso drinks never costs more than $1.50 and are delicious.
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The Other Jew today is Historian Elliott Horowitz who documented that devout Jews appreciated the caffeine in the new drink’s stimulating quality, allowing scholars to stay up at night in order to study Torah. Early drinkers faced a range of questions, whether the new drink should be considered a food or a medicine, and what blessing should be made over the bean-infused drink. (It was determined that coffee is considered a drink, not a medicine, and the shehakol blessing is made over coffee.)
From https://www.aish.com/jw/s/Jews-and-Coffee-8-Little-Known-Facts.html where you can read more facinating facts if you are unable to sleep.
Short form is good, like a little tapas bite. :) I'm going to have a coffee with you right now. Mwa.
ReplyDeleteThat was from your daughter. :)
ReplyDeleteI recognized the MWA! Love and hugs to all of you!
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ReplyDeleteit is very interesting to read about your experience in Europe!
Did you get used to espresso style of coffee instead of american coffee?
73 from Helen - your ukrainian friend
So good to see your name today. We framed and mounted an oil painting of Lviv (or is it Lvov, I can’t keep it straight) and mounted it on our living room wall.
DeleteI love the coffee here - it was one of the attractive things about Spain. I have an espresso machine we use every day, a real espresso machine when we want to spend a lot of time messing with it and we drink coffee at cafes often. Coffee here is a social activity as well as drink/drug.
I hope one day you and Victor can visit us here.
Lviv is ukrainian name, Lvov is russian, Lwow is polish .
DeleteCoffee is a social activity in Lviv also. Iguess vine us also a social activity in Spain