Kaffee, Teil der albanischen Traditionen
Have you ever visited Albania? If not, you will certainly experience a sort of a culture shock, in a good way! A welcoming phrase you’ll continuously hear will be: Let’s sit for a coffee! Something you will see is coffeehouses (Albanian’s call them ‘Lokal’) full of people at any time of the day! What are they doing? It is part of the Albanian culture to stay for long hours in cafes, solving problems in cafes, even signing important agreements or documents in front of a cup of coffee, and this has its roots in an early tradition. Coffee was the seal that set a deal from which there was no turning back. Albanians have many symbols in the ritual of...