Turkish coffee service (mesh) box

This service is intended to enhance roleplay...click the ibrik to get a coffee..or click the empty cup (fincan) to read the coffee grounds.

There is an old saying that, properly prepared, Turkish Coffee should be: “black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.” While sometimes confused with its Mediterranean cousin, Espresso, they are actually, very, very different brews. Espresso is the product of steam meeting packed finely ground coffee bean in a pressurized situation. A cup of the Turkish brew has a rich, organic, almost chewy quality, when the powdery grind is married with water, and varying degrees of sugar and (sometimes) spice in a copper or brass pot called a cezve or ibrik (Turkish), mpriki (Greek), rakwa (Arabic), and finjan (Persian). Prepared in the traditional way throughout the Middle East, it is probably the oldest way of brewing the bean.

Coffee comes originally from Yemen or Ethiopia, where it is assumed that nomadic people discovered that by roasting the green beans over a fire and then crushing them and boiling them in water, a pleasant drink was produced that could keep a tired shepherd or camp guard awake through a long night’s duty. It would also stave away hunger when food was scarce.

By the late 15th or early 16th century, its popularity had spread to the major cities throughout the Middle East, where it was regarded as a gift from God. As early as 1555 there was, in fact, a coffeehouse in business in Constantinople, as reported by the ancient Ottoman writer, Ibrahim Pecevi.

In the times of the sultan, it was part of elaborate court ritual, requiring many hands to prepare and young women would receive intensive training in the art of making the perfect cup Prospective brides would be judged on their ability to wield a mean ibrik – although when the bride was reluctant to wed the man of her family’s choosing, she could be known to sabotage the brew with salt or serve it with ungracefulness to her prospective in-laws!

Men and women in Middle East are equal opportunity coffee drinkers, although the men tend to partake of the brew in public coffeehouses, as they socialize and play tabli and women tend to drink at home with their friends and often play a fortune telling game, called “fal,” with the grounds at the bottom of the cup.

This service includes the ibrik (the pot), the Hovoli (the traditional sand pot used to heat the water), the Degirmen (coffee grinder), the sugar bowl and the ceramic container of roasted coffee beans. After you drank your coffee from its demitasse cup, you returned it to the tray. Click on this cup to see your future…perhaps..or your past.

Click on the Ibrik to be offered a choice of coffee from the Arabian penensula

This service is entirely mesh and has a land impact of 3 prims at the size delivered. There is a built in resize script so you can change the size of the tray.

As with all our work, we will be happy to customize it for you for an additional fee if you contact Kitty in world. We would also be happy to change the texture on the bar or on any of the drinks contained here in. Contact Kittycat Ninetails inword please.

By the way, custom means we do different textures on the decanter or barrel, and perhaps on the cups/mugs/horns/glass inside plus edit the chatter the cup does. We are more than happy, at no additional fee, to change out any drink in any of the decanters for any others. We have no way of knowing what you like to drink, and do not consider taking a barrel and shifting the drinks in it to something else as custom. That is just good customer service.

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