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ibrik

/ ˈibrik /

noun

  1. the Arabic name for cezve
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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You’ll usually find it listed on menus as Turkish coffee, but, as the ibrik is the brew method of choice throughout the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Northern Africa, you might also see it called Lebanese coffee — or Greek coffee, Armenian coffee or Bosnian coffee.

What shops generally have in common, though, is how the coffee is presented: More often than not, the coffee will be delivered in the ibrik itself, along with a small cup not unlike the tea cups you cradle during dim sum hour.

On the tray will be an ibrik filled with hot coffee; a small, white cup; two neat cubes of white sugar; and a piece of Turkish Delight candy that may be scented with rose.

As with pourover coffee, there are many ways to brew coffee in an ibrik, and no two spots make it the same way.

She is brewing a pot of Turkish coffee, a style of coffee that goes by a number of names, including ibrik coffee, Greek coffee, Lebanese coffee and Armenian coffee.

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