No coffee tasting today. It’s the weekend and we were out and about, to the zoo among other things. (Gabe’s first zoo trip!) So instead let me share some of my friends in this coffee project:
Meet my favorite coffee mug. She’s Hungarian. I got her in about 2001 in an open-air market in Budapest, Hungary. There was a ton of great pottery there and I wanted to buy it all, but I was backpacking and there’s only so much dishware you can fit into one of those packs. After ages of deliberating, I got this mug and another matching one and a crazy bright red and blue vase and another, smaller moss colored honey-pot with great blue swirls.
I love my blue crackle-looking coffee mugs. I live in fear that I’ll break them somehow. In addition to coffee, they make for good ice cream bowls.
Meet my second favorite, but increasingly used Villeroy and Boch mug.
Increasingly used because of its perfect size. I love my Hungarian babies, but since I became pregnant and started cutting back on caffeine, I found myself reaching for this little guy more and more often. I’m a slow-sipper so I can finish my brew w/out my coffee getting cold from this one. He comes in a set of china my mom got for me when I was a teenager, telling me one day I’d be thankful for her purchase. And, of course, mom’s right.
4 responses so far ↓
Ed Loy // September 28, 2008 at 7:20 pm
It is a pleasure to know about your Hungarian & German friends in your coffee quest.
Mine do not have that type of heratige. The one I use most for coffee is a Syracuse China mug , 6 0z size (aquired from The Mattapoisett Inn) “near” Cape Cod. Its backup is an un-marked Mug, 8 oz size, with a Chihuahua on it. (The tale of Chula the Chihuahua is another story all together) My backup’s backup is an 8.5 oz Marine Corp mug given to me by my step-son.
I brew 10 cups – 6 oz size – at a time and consume it all each day. Enough for an no-testing day.
Ed Loy // September 28, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Do you check your page in Hai Society?
kellyerace // September 29, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Hi Ed! Love that you also know the history of your mugs. And that you have a backup and a backup to the backup! Hmmm…maybe soon we’ll learn more about Chula the Chihuahua?
Anyone else got a beloved coffee mug?
Ed Loy // September 29, 2008 at 3:07 pm
The tale about Chula the Chihuahua is nothing about coffee. Just a story about a man & his dog. Sometime this week I’ll post the info to the kellyerace page and let you advise if you want to see it here on this great blog about coffee.