Alghero - the city of taste

Alghero, it happens to meet people and stroll, while we chat, reality in the shade comes to the surface, we talk about coffee, memories come to mind at my grandmother's house, when my uncles returned home as sailors, and brought coffee still clear to be toasted, it was toasted at home, the fire was lit and the coffee was poured into a large pan, while the coffee took on color, it was turned with a wooden ladle, in the meantime it was tasted, crunchy and bitter, a bean pull the other, it is certainly not a blend, as is done today, between a chat and the other, you go back in time. 

In practice the coffee was already known in ancient times, it was drunk by wealthy families we are talking about the 1300s - 1400, up, there was no refined sugar like the one today, honey was used, the reason why there are few writings or writings on coffee and precisely because it was drunk only by a wealthy class, we bring back the discourse on Alghero, create a roastingfrom scratch and a difficult operation, but not impossible, to mix coffee for daily consumption within families, it is not an impossible mission, the fact remains that with coffee you have to satisfy all palates, tastes, senses, bringing back memories the coffee that my grandmother roasted was an excellent coffee, I still feel the taste of it, today there are very few blends that I can taste, keeping up that aftertaste, pleasant bitterish, I will always say that the coffee that my grandmother roasted was the best, always walking along the wall of Alghero, with the person who accompanies me on the walk, he reveals to me that perhaps in Alghero there is a roasting company, he does not remember where but it exists, certainly it is a mirage, from my grandmother with the pan to modernization, one thing is clear those goats that in ancient times made a shepherd discover coffee, have made coffee go a long way, which was drunk at the beginning only in well-to-do homes today a common drink, with variations and different tastes depending on the part of the globe where a person is, in Alghero enjoying a good coffee in front of the sea, on a terrace of an apartment overlooking the sea has a particular aroma. In Alghero.
Salvatore Serra