buna (coffee) ceremony. There’s the jebana used to prepare and serve the coffee, the pan to roast the coffee beans and the dish to hold incense, normally frankincense or myrrh.
This is burned over coal, a necessary component to prepare the room for ritual. The smoke is said to carry away any bad spirits. “If anyone invites you into their home and they make you a traditional coffee, that means you are family because it takes one hour to make the coffee,” Sefanit explained. “It says I’m giving you my time, my patience, my love.
The way my mum used to say, if you make it nicely from your heart it tastes nice.”Coffee is big business in Ethiopia. It is the country's most prominent export as well as being widely consumed domestically.
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