Mortar and Pestle
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The Himmas Kassa Process
lemons in salt chickpeas cinnamon, coriander, black pepper, cumin, caraway garlic and ginger added some lemon juice parsley, mint, olive oil and the chickpeas added, and pounded to a paste…
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Celebration Day — twenty-two
On this day of celebration I began working last year. After the planning began, the first physical step was realized on December 31st, as I put four lemons in a salt bad. Here is to the hummus from ancient times.
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To Beat or to Grind — that is not a question
The Turks excel us in this. They employ no mill to torture the coffee, but beat it with wooden pestles in mortars. When the pestles have been long used, they become precious and are sold at great prices. I had to examine and determine whether in the result one or the other of the two…
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Garlic distancing and ginger mask
After having lived in Berlin and Boston, Limassol and Liège, London and Vienna, and knowing that New York will not be my last, I have no reason to care much about the affairs of cities, commonly known as politics. Even in private, my comments will reveal little affiliation tendencies. Not systems help me conduct life…
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awel / abol
The first coffee serving in the Ethiopian coffee ritual
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Coffee and French Lavender
Simplicity is not about numbers but oneness orchestrating complexity well. Purity is not about singularity, rather process. Creativity does not just imply innovation. It is a fine, attentive perception to subtleties in detail of a quotidian life. Nothing lays hidden but awaits the hungry in thought, experience, and growth.
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grind
To rotate the hips erotically To break down a hard substance to a finer size or degree To work excessively To never attend parties Monotonous, difficult labor To become pulverized or sharp through friction To reduce to powder, or small fragments To wear down To create constant friction on hard materials To rub roughly To…
Sila Blume 