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!

MATSURI LATINO 2019

Thank you very much,

どうもありがとうございます,

Grazie mille,

Muchissimas gracias,

Muito obrigado mesmo

To all the nice people, old and new friends, that today came to the 6th edition of the Matsuri Latino!

It's amazing to see how this little event grew throughout these years...

As usual, it has been great fun, even if I worked as a machine. I don't know how many dozens of espresso I made.
Super-Special THANKS to Akemi Sesoko Sensei for letting us have fun at her school; to Maria Soledad Nerome and to Rumiko Onaka for organizing the whole thing; to Juan Carlos Lugo for being, once more, the perfect host, with happiness and great energy; to Oswaldo Castro, for coming directly from Chile; to the neko-women Satoko Ishizaki and Eiko Pocky for trying to raise some funds to help the poor stray cats of Okinawa. And, more in general, to all the happy souls that brought their good mood to the party and helped cleaning.

See you at the Matsuri Latino 2020!!!