Letter from Prague The story of an old coffee bean grinder
A couple of bags of rich-roasted Hawaiian coffee beans recently led me to re-discover a small family relic, which lay forgotten for years in a back cupboard, until it was needed: a small, cast-metal coffee bean grinder, produced sometime in the 1930s, a grinder, it turns out, once manufactured by my family. I had been looking for a means of grinding up beans we had received as a gift last Christmas, when my father dug up the object, still bearing my grandmother's family name and logo.
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