Jenny-bei-cafei…
I don’t know if a coffee gene exists. So that you can inherit the liking of coffee (or coffee cups). But the name of my mother was the one I put in the title and which, in English, would sound like Jenny-who-drinks-coffee. It was my mother’s nickname. Still is, in fact, since she is 82 and counting, with a younger sister, the only survivors of a 13 children family… She was called that name (her sister still calls her like that) because it was common knowledge in the family that you needn’t to prepare very elaborate meals to please my mother (Eugenia, shortly Jenny): if you would give her a large cup of caffé au lait and some bread she would be quite happy… and they called her Jenny-who-drinks-coffee… Not a bad nickname, after all… Another time I will tell you her secret coffee making ritual… For now, here she is, in her prime, in a detail of the painting I gave her for her 80th anniversary… Ion Vincent Danu
ION VINCENT DANU, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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About Café Crem
Hello Boys & Girls from around the World!
Fancy a coffee with us?
Café Crem was created by Miki and Kev Moore in 2007 with the intention of gathering like-minded artists, writers and musicians together around the coffee table to discuss and share thoughts, ideas, art, etc.
This initial desire has surpassed our wildest dreams with a myriad of collaborations taking place between the various members, creating pieces of work that simply would not exist without Café Crem.
Have a wander though in our different rooms:
“Cafe Literati”, the Literary Room
“Café L’Arte”, the Art Gallery
“Ca’ Puccini”, the Music Studio
and, last but not least,
“The MiniBar”, our creative space for our kids and teens!
You are all welcome.
Contact Miki at miki7@mac.com if you want to participate!
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A nice story, Danu! I have no difficulty in believing she didnt need elaborate meals…Miki would live all day on nice warm bread and cafe au lait!
that’s a beautiful painting and a lovely trinute to your mother
ooops I meant tribute of course
I also remember my mother liking coffee so much and having it with cafe con leche (coffee with milk). SO, yes, there must be a coffee gene
At 88 nnow she drinks full cups of very strong coffee, the Caribbean way even though she shouldn’t . But at 88 she thinks she better have some coffee pleasure in life .
i’m more of a tea person most people love coffee, great portrait.
Tjanks, Kev! and nursemyra and Yolanda and fyxer!
And I think my mother, and miki and Yolanda’s mother are very smart. There no other taste like that of the bread dipped ino a good cup of coffee & milk…
I have my coffee with mucho mucho leche, Yolanda! Many of us here seem to have very old but still healthy mothers… it must be because they drink so much coffee! Although I must say that MY mother definitively prefers red wine! But of course not for breakfast…
Awful, Danu! French Baguette makes crumbs, and I love French Baguette, and I hate crumbs in my coffee!
But I remember my grand-mother dipping her bread into her coffee and I couln´t see all these crumbs floating around…
The secret is, probably, to use not so fresh French baquette et just to dip it (not to let it stay too long in your coffee – just enough to absorb a bit of c.)
Look at me, giving advice to the masters!!!