coffee envy © Lilly Schwartz 2011
In the morning Ezequiel has an espresso with a little milk. Maybe I mentioned it before, I don’t know, but I love coffee. Sadly I can’t drink it anymore since my body seems to reject everything that strong. I haven’t had coffee in 3 years, but still, every morning I feel like I really need one. Over the years I have reduced my caffeine intake to 0. When my health problems started I was trying to get off coffee, but always failed. I read somewhere that it takes only 3 days to get over caffeine addiction, but it took me two months to actually manage to not have a coffee for 3 days. After that I reduced it more. First I drank coffee, then black tea, then green tea and now I’m off caffeine. And I tell you, it sucks!
I have many fond memories of coffee. When I bought my coffee machine – a blue senseo coffee maker – it came with 3 different types of coffee to try. Of course I had to try them all. Extensively. So I had 6 cups of coffee. What I didn’t know was that one pad machine coffee has about double the caffeine of a normal filter coffee. So, over the course of the day starting in the afternoon I had the equivalent of 12 cups of coffee. I was buzzing! At 1am I called a friend and asked him whether he wanted to come over to have pancakes and drink coffee. And that’s what we did the rest of the night.
I also regularly drank a Red Bull copy called Booster. Once when we – that is me and some friends of mine – were driving to a party, one of my friends sat behind me in the car. He couldn’t see what I was doing and I opened a bottle of Booster. It has quite a strong smell, much stronger than Red Bull, so my friend on the back seat said “Lilly, it smells of Booster, did you cut yourself?”
I miss those times. And I miss coffee. And every morning Ezequiel has his espresso with a little milk. And every morning I want to steal it from him! I guess, once an addict, always an addict …
I remember I once had coffee sweeties. They really taste like coffee. Maybe they are available in Berlin? And mostly the smell of coffee is better than the drink. I write this to make you feel better.
Thanks for writing, it’s appreciated 🙂 I think I know these coffee sweets, but I don’t really like them. I actually like everything about real coffee. The taste, the smell …! Well, don’t worry about me though, I’m used to not being able to eat and drink certain things. I could also write a blog post about cake ………. hmmm … cake!
I’m still having my cup a day, but am sure I’d feel a lot better without it. But it’s so hard to resist — as you say the wonderful taste and aroma, as well as the ritual 🙂
Years ago I used to drink coffee with the guys at work at break time and at lunch…for 9 years. I stopped after that and now I don’t like to drink it because it makes my heart race. After all that time it still does even if I have one cup a year! Love the taste but it makes me all jittery!
Yes, the ritual of brewing, the aroma wafting in the air, the first sip, hhhhhhhhhh…….. one time while visiting friends I began to have a headache that just wouldn’t go away. After the 3rd day our hostess suggested I try drinking a Pepsi. Within minutes of drinking it my headache went away. Come to find out her household drank caffeine free coffee! 🙂
Sorry to read that you cannot drink coffee anymore 🙁
I’m a coffee addict !
But only when I work … at least 5-6 cups per day … but no milk in it …
milk + coffee destroys my stomach !
I love your site, and I read it everyday. I nominated you for the Most Versatile Blogger award today. Keep up the great work.
And decaf is just not the same… At least the coffee smells as good as it tastes.
With me it’s Cola…
out of all the foods/beverages it would definitely be the most difficult to give up…
http://columnfivemedia.com/in-caffeine-we-trust-infographic
I love the coffee aroma but am not a coffee drinker. Your photo has really nice composition, shapes and shadows.