{"id":283115,"date":"2019-08-02T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiiQFodHRwczovL3d3dy45bmV3cy5jb20vdmlkZW8vbGlmZS9zdHlsZS9jb2xvcmFkby1ndWlkZS90YXN0ZS1vZi1ldGhpb3BpYS1hLW1vcm5pbmctY29mZmVlLWNlcmVtb255LzczLWYzYTAwOGQ5LThlN2ItNDk3OC05OTM4LTNlNmYyMjM3Y2E3NNIBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-10-15T11:28:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:28:52","slug":"taste-of-ethiopia-colorado-coffee-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/283115","title":{"rendered":"Taste of Ethiopia festival shows a morning coffee ceremony in Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hirut Crusan demonstrated a traditional Ethiopian morning coffee ceremony for Denver's Taste of Ethiopia festival at Parkfield Lake Park, 9News reported in August 2019.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"size-large wp-image-837809\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ethiopian-coffee-ceremony-set.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"An Ethiopian and Eritrean coffee ceremony, November 2022\" \/><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>An Ethiopian and Eritrean coffee ceremony, November 2022 (ProtoplasmaKid \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) [file photo]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Crusan, of Windsor, Colorado, was among dozens of vendors at the community festival. 9News filmed the roasting, grinding and three rounds of brewing that mark a buna ceremony, a social ritual as much as a drink.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia is widely cited as the birthplace of arabica coffee. In Ethiopian and Eritrean homes the ceremony can last an hour or more, with incense, popcorn or bread, and conversation while the coffee is prepared in a jebena pot.<\/p>\n<p>Diaspora festivals such as Taste of Ethiopia keep that practice visible for younger generations and for neighbors who know coffee only as a takeaway cup.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com\/video\/life\/style\/colorado-guide\/taste-of-ethiopia-a-morning-coffee-ceremony\/73-f3a008d9-8e7b-4978-9938-3e6f2237ca74\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9News KUSA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com\/article\/news\/taste-of-ethiopia-windsor-woman-shares-morning-coffee-ceremony\/73-5c5c8c8e-4f3e-4c2e-9f3e-8e3e2e1e0e9e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9News KUSA<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hirut Crusan demonstrated a traditional Ethiopian morning coffee ceremony for Denver&#8217;s Taste of Ethiopia festival at Parkfield Lake Park, 9News reported in August 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":837809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ethiopian-coffee-ceremony-set.jpg?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1bEn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837818,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283115\/revisions\/837818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}