Coffee and aroma, a lifestyle.

A friendly greeting dear Hivers, I wish you all a happy weekend, today is a rainy day in my region and these days nothing is warmer than a hot coffee. Actually I live in a very hot area, usually the temperature is between 30° C and 32° C and hot coffee is one of the most consumed beverages in the community, in any house I visit they offer me coffee, in the last two years my coffee consumption has increased to two liters per day and this has made me feel very good.

Coffee has numerous benefits, it is a stimulant of the central nervous system and an antioxidant, besides its forms of consumption are very diverse and I can enjoy it in many ways. Where I live I have had the possibility of consuming coffee planted, harvested, roasted by my own neighbors, freshly ground in the house of a good friend, in fact coffee is part of the local culture.

In my region, which is naturally coffee-growing (in fact, the flag of the state of Táchira boasts two sprigs of coffee under its four stars), it is customary to drink coffee at breakfast time. From the time children are two years old, families begin to develop in them the culture of coffee consumption. In my case it is no exception, since I was a child I have been a coffee drinker and now it is one of the beverages that I enjoy the most and with which I have allowed myself to become passionate and explore.

I have also learned to enjoy coffee with spices, something that is not customary in my community. Spices and coffee are historically related, their combination is millenary. I enjoy my coffee throughout the day, sometimes I drink it pure, but on some occasions I delight in flavoring it with turmeric, cinnamon, ginger, cocoa, white pepper, cloves, nutmeg. Those for now although I really want to try many others that I have researched.

Recently I have been drinking coffee flavored with Vibhuti: The sacred ashes. Which my life partner brought back from her trip to India. This combination has been wonderful, the Vibhuti and the coffee seem made for each other, what I do is pour my coffee in my cup and add a pinch of this delicious ash. Its flavor can last all day long inhabiting my mouth. I do not do it very often because Vibhuti has some spiritual connotations that I prefer to respect, as for the devotees it is an energy transmitting agent, I only drink it when I feel with the right energy.

I think coffee has given me many sensory possibilities and I am enjoying it to the fullest. I hope you like my post, I enjoy this community very much because I am openly a coffee lover, so I will be sharing with you more often.