Sentimental Journal #6: Coffee
© Mirjam Letsch | United Arab Emirates
“Read it like a magazine.
Treasure it like a book.”
Never a fourth cup
I once asked for a ‘Turkish coffee’ in an extremely cozy little café in Beirut, Lebanon. The owner faced me with a friendly though unmistakable stare of admonition. ‘It’s called ‘Arabic coffee’, madam’. So this time, traveling the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and knowing I wanted to write about coffee, I decided to educate myself first, and started in the Coffee Museum in Dubai’s Al Fahidi Historical District. After spending some time here, so I thought, I could face the coffee brewers of the UAE well prepared and with confidence.
© Mirjam Letsch | United Arab Emirates
© Mirjam Letsch | United Arab Emirates
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Founded by Linda Loenen and Helma Bongenaar, Sentimental Journal, is an international magazine with a keen eye for our cultural heritage. “Each issue will have its own unique theme: Wood, Water, Harvest, Ceramics, Habitat, Fabrics, Time. The beauty that our stories and images will unveil are for curious people from anywhere in the world. For people who want yearn to discover and who are compelled to go beyond their own boundaries. Sentimental Journal is for the inspired, creative, inquisitive man and woman. An authentic person who appreciates beauty, simplicity and ingenuity, and who wants to protect and savor it”.
Located in the heart of Amsterdam, Linda and Helma have joined forces to bring their years of experience in the world of magazines and books, to publish the:
