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big news!

7/28/2020

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The Big Buna Bash was honored to receive 2nd place for cultural diversity in the Purple Dragonfly Book Awards!
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coming soon: the big buna bash in hebrew and amharic

7/28/2020

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The Big Buna Bash will soon be out in two additional languages: Hebrew and Amharic!

Why Hebrew?

Because Israel is my home!  The Ethiopian Jewish community brought their tradition of buna with them from Ethiopia to Israel.  That's how I learned the magic of buna! 
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Israeli Flag
Why Amharic?

​For the kids in Ethiopia! I want them to be able to read The Big Buna Bash in their own mother tongue. 
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Ethiopian Girl
These new versions will be marketed by Brandylane Publishers, alongside the original English version.
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Coffee culture: how coffee is made, served, and shared around the world

7/20/2020

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In Ethiopia, coffee is a way of life!  Ethiopians have been drinking coffee from the earliest times.  But they aren't the only place with a strong coffee culture. All over the globe, coffee-lovers are consuming and preparing coffee in different ways!

For instance, Italy gave the world the terms that have become universal in coffee ordering:
americano
cappuccino
espresso
latte
macchiato
mocha
latte
Italy also has some of the oldest operating cafes in the world.

The Netherlands boasts "koffie verkeert" or "coffee wrong", a cafe au lait served in a glass cup.
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Dutch coffee: cafe au lait
Vietnamese coffee is made in a personal drip pot and served with sweetened condensed milk.
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Coffee in Vietnam
In Australia, quality wins over quantity!  The Austrailian silky shiny latte makes coffee-making an art with perfectly frothed milk.  Starbucks didn't survive for long in Australia!
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Smooth Austrailian coffee
In India, coffee culture is a relatively new thing!  The Indians usually drank their coffee with milk so the quality of the coffee wasn't so important, as the milk masqued it's flavor.  Indains start their day with a big tumbler of strong filter coffee with boiled milk and sugar added.
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Strong Indian coffee
In Turkey, coffee grounds are boiled and served black and bubbly in ornate cups!
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Turkish Coffee
Cuba has "Cortodito", a sweetened espresso with seamed milk.
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Coffee in Cuba
Korean coffee consumption is on the rise!  Coffee didn't arrive there until 1896 when King Gojong first tried it and spread the word.  A popular coffee in Korea is called "Dalgona", a cold latte with a sweet, bitter coffee foam on top.
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Korean "Dalgona" coffee with candy on top
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buna coffee art

7/12/2020

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Here is a collection of artwork depicting the Ethiopian buna coffee ceremony.  I regret that I can't give credit to the artists as I don't know their sources.  
​Enjoy!
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    I had so much fun writing The Big Buna Bash, and I want to share it to inspire cultural pride in kids who might feel like they don't fit in because of their differences.  I believe in diversity and inclusion; that's why I wrote The Big Buna Bash!
    ​"Diversity is being invited to the party.  Inclusion is being asked to dance" Verna Myers

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