Traditions, customs and habits constitute the cultural values of societies. These values are the result of accumulation of a long period of time. The eating and drinking habits that are among the habits of the Turkish society are culturally significant. Coffee which is the subject of my study is at the forefront of beverages that play an important role in the social environment for years. It is known that drinking habits of coffee, which is loved and loved by the Turkish people and which is considered to be a precious feature, continues from the 5th century until the present day.Coffee is powder obtained from a tree of the genus coffea by roasting and grinding of bright red fruit cores reminding of cherry. While coffee is located in the ancient sources of similar information about the first time where it is often found along Yemen's homeland of coffee but it is known that the first coffee brought from Yemen to Ethiopia. Since the spread of the coffee from Arabia to the western countries was provided through Ottoman geography, the Europeans called coffee as Turkish beverages. For centuries, happy and joyful to be characterized by a beverage widely consumed coffee is an important beverage showing the effect of social life. Turkish coffee culture is among our ongoing traditions. As part of everyday life, it has become an indispensable cultural heritage as an irreplaceable drink of social institutions such as entertainment, conversation and hospitality, which coffee has been a sign of social status with a special emphasis on being serviced previously. In this study; in terms of Turkish society by declaring the importance of coffee the history of coffee and were informed about the preparation of Turkish coffee. In addition, the coffee by emphasizing the duty of the social life, proposals have been presented for the continuation of the cultural heritage feature.
Coffee, cultural heritage,eating habits
Author : | Firdevs YÖNET EREN -- Aybuke CEYHUN SEZGİN |
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Number of pages: | 697-712 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.12880 |
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