Before I tell you who won the giveaway, I want to thank all of you who shared your coffee memories. I felt like I was hanging out with you at a "ventanita" in Miami talking about that magical first time delicious coffee was introduced into our lives.
Thank you.
The winner of this fabulous Café La Llave Coffee Basket is (drum roll, please)…
Congratulations, gold digger! Please send me an email with HEY, MARTA! I WON STUFF ON YOUR BLOG! in the subject line. Please include your mailing address so I can forward to my good friends at Gaviña and they will get your coffee goodies out to you ASAP.
A great big thank you to Gaviña Gourmet Coffee for their generous sponsorship. For those of you who didn't win, the consolation is that you can still order Café La Llave or Don Francisco or any of the other fabulous Gaviña brands and goodies on their website. Please click on the green link just to the right and remember to enter the code Cuban20 at checkout.
Gracias again to all who entered. And in case you've forgotten, here's the best way to get your "espumita" just right. You're welcome!
I AM SO EXCITED! This totally makes my day. No. My month.Besitos and abrazos! Con cafeina!
I have to say more. (I just messaged my husband that I won and he is excited, too.)I am making up for lost coffee time. One of my favorite childhood memories is waking up to the aroma and sound of coffee percolating on my grandparents’ stove. They never had espresso – that would have been too fancy for them (and they probably didn’t even know what it was), but I remember sitting at the kitchen table with my grandfather, whom I loved madly, while he drank his coffee and ate his toast. He would pour some of the coffee into the saucer to cool and would drink it from the saucer. I suppose that is not considered very refined these days, but when I was a kid, that was how farmers drank their coffee.
He would spread bacon grease on his toast – do not laugh until you have tried it because it is delicious – and sip his coffee. This was after he was retired. When I was really little, I wasn’t even up when he was because he was out in the barn milking the cows before the sun came up.
Coffee is part of some of my happiest memories.
Congrats, gold digger!! =)
I’m so happy that you’re so enthused by this. I know you’re going to love the awesome that is La Llave.As an aside, my just-off-the-boat-from-Cuba cousin declared La Llave the very best Cuban coffee ever. People in Miami know this kind of stuff.
xo,
Marta
I love this.