
As I had said in a previous comment only against our will we have had to give up coffee. Like all Venezuelans who found themselves in their region for the year: 2013 we suffered a serious crisis at the general level, but especially in the food supply and coffee is among the staples of Venezuelan. At the time you could find "artisan coffee" I put in quotation marks because many times they were other types of beans with coffee aroma and they sold them as if they were our wonderful elixir.
I spent a day without drinking coffee and I felt terrible, I thought that the negative effects of not consuming coffee were a lie, until it was my turn: I felt a terrible headache and everything was spinning around. I only got relief by sleeping for a while and I am sure it was due to not drinking coffee because I was well hydrated and had breakfast.
I do not wish that to anyone, on the contrary, we all deserve to enjoy what makes us happy.
I also remember that sometimes you could get coffee beans, as shown in the picture, and it was like finding diamonds because it was a guarantee that you were consuming 100% coffee. The mess afterwards was to grind it because we didn't have a grinder so we would grind it with a stone 🤭 then we would pass it through the blender. Obviously I damaged like 3 times the blades of the blenders.
