{"id":2208,"date":"2020-08-18T16:45:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T15:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intunis.net\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2020-09-08T11:10:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T10:10:13","slug":"coffee-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2021.intunis.net\/ar\/coffee-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Three espresso based coffee and the Turkish-style ‘qahwa arbi’ coffee, Austin Hand, Engaging Cultures Travel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In Tunisian coffee is not just a simple drink, which you quickly pick up and drink while running to the next meeting. There is no room for hasts and stress. Unlike the global “to go” trend in Tunisian you still take your coffee sitting down, sip by sip, give vent to one\u2019s thoughts or share them in community. Drinking coffee is not about having the fanciest drink with a special flavour, sitting in the most famous caf\u00e9 or only having an energizer.
\nIn Tunisian coffee is part of the culture and drinking it is a social event sometimes even a ritual.<\/p>\n

Today the traditional Tunisian coffee is an unique flower-coffee-mixture which combines the Ottoman and Andalusian influences.
\nIn the 16th century, during the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish brought the coffee in the region. That is how it happened, that in 1846 even more than half of the caf\u00e9s were run by Turks. Due to the Ottoman influence, today the traditional Tunisian coffee is prepared in the \u201cZ\u00e9zoua\u201d a pot which is similar to the Turkish coffee pot.<\/p>\n

The french colonialists introduced the modern western way to drink coffee. They cultivated the \u201cDahors\u201d, the street caf\u00e9s and refined the coffee with the flowing aroma by adding geranium, rose or orange blossom water.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Caffee with orange blossom water, @BunaaCoffee, Twitter.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In fact, it is claimed that coffee was brought much earlier to Tunisian by the ascetic Aboulhassen Chedli (1196-1258). Even today a coffee can be called \u201cChedlia\u201d (derived from the name of the holy man).
\nChedlis disciples build the “Zaouia of Sidi Belhassen Chedli” and there they used the invigorating effect of coffee to continue the nightly prayer cycles. That’s how drinking coffee became a ritual and one could say that in Tunis, with Chedli, the coffee culture and the first coffee house were founded.<\/p>\n

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Photo:Zawiya Sidi Belhassen Chedly, Dismalden, Lostintunis.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, apart from this historical event the widespread consumption of coffee and the opening of the caf\u00e9s can be traced back to the time of the Ottoman Empire.
\nCoffee became more and more popular and the opening of many of these coffeehouses enabled a rich exchange. Thus, the introduction of coffee not only brought a nice drink to Tunisian, it was rather a ground for new customs, culture and social gathering.
\nThe Caf\u00e9 became a place of exchange, a place where people meet and also a place to pursue the one thoughts and relax.
\nThere is a distinctly Tunisian morning coffee-ritual that takes place daily after Fajr, the pre-sunrise prayers. The worshipper enter the caf\u00e9 next door take the newspaper, sit with a group of friends and cultivate their relationships through coffee and croissants.
\nAnd even later in the day poets were sitting next to students, laymen\u2019s, worshipper and politicians. Men where sitting together smoking Hookah and playing Backgammon. It became a place where everybody learns from everybody.
\nThe richness of the exchange and the importance of spending time in the caf\u00e9 is the reason why \u201cMalouf Tunsi<\/a>” a genre of melodious poetry was cultivated in the coffee house environment.<\/p>\n

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Photo: CD cover, Tunisie N\u00dbBA AL-ASBAH\u00c2N Anthologie du M\u00e2l\u00fbf, vol. 3, illustrated by Zoubeir Turki.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Therefore sitting in a caf\u00e9 doesn\u2019t take time it rather enriches the day for about three hours.
\nTake a coffee, absorb and enrich your surrounding and enjoy your day.<\/p>\n

LINKS
\nThe Tunisian Art Of Drinking Coffee<\/a>
\nHistory of coffee in Tunisia <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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