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Coffee is a way of communication. It stimulates conversation, no doubt about it. It also makes you think faster, evokes ideas and prompts new prospects. Sometimes, even a sip of coffee brings forth an instant project, sometimes unexpectedly. This is what exactly happened a few weeks back in Barcelona when talking with a food researcher colleague, Sırma Güven.

Tomorrow is International Coffee Day, a day to celebrate sleepless nights, bulging eyes and brighter mornings. It's also a day to remember a loyal comrade on overworked nights and an unfaltering companion of conversations for five centuries. For the Turkish people, it's all of this and much more, with the preeminent place of Turkish coffee in our lives.