Grind: The Mechanical and the Memorable

Anissa Helou
Levant: Recipes and Memories from the Middle East

In those days we ground the beans for every brew and we did it in a beautiful narrow cylindrical brass grinder that had geometric patterns etched all over. I carefully poured the roasted beans into the top part of the grinder, then fitted the domed lid on top and slotted the articulated handle (which folded to fit inside the grinder when it was not in use) onto the grinding pole. I then slipped the bottom part, into which the ground coffee would fall, beneath the top one and started turning the handle to grind the coffee beans.

Brass hand-cranked coffee mill

And so for day 3006
05.03.2015

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