COFFEE DAY

THANKS a lot to the kind friends and visitors who yesterday came to my "Coffee Day" event at Taste of Okinawa! It has been a personal challenge to prepare unusual dishes - pasta and rice with coffee - and do my little part to promote a bean/drink/flavour that I really love. It has been interesting to see some guest not trusting the 'strange' match pasta/rice+coffee powder and, on the other side, different guests discovering, happily surprised, a beautiful, exciting, combination.

I could also enjoy sharing my passion for Italian espresso, for South-American beans and, above all, for Vietnamese robusta coffee. Thanks also to the gentle souls, coffee-lovers, that bought some of my "Europa Vintage Okinawa" collection of European coffee goods. Yesterday, even if the virus refrained some people to go to events like mine, I enjoyed very much the situation.

A special ARIGATOu to the gentle owner of Taste of Okinawa,

Tomoaki Goeku, for renting me, once more, his fantastic space. A DANKE SCHON to the unique, new 'beer guy' in town,

Wolfram Opitz, for providing the most amazing coffee-beer (Wolfbrau) and to his gentle wife for her fantastic coffee (Wolfbrau too). Last but not least, a super-GRAZIE MILLE to my good friend Gino Goya, once again my life buoy in the emergency situations (yesterday: miscalculation of eggs + priceless third hand to make extra tagliatelle; and taxi driver too!). Some guest asked me if I'll hold a similar event next year... What can I say? I hope so!