It is rare to find a Cuban who does not drink coffee. Most people drink it at dawn and more than one person, if they don't drink it in the morning, will have a headache all day long. Most Cubans drink coffee up to three times in a day.
The morning coffee
To start the day there is nothing better than having a cup of freshly brewed coffee. While you savor that bitter nectar, you review the challenges of the day. If you are in Cuba, the smell mixes with the dew-wet earth.
If you are far from the Island, your head fills with memories evoked by the smell. A coffee in the morning is essential to broaden your vision, charge you with energy and get to work as if there were no later.
The afternoon coffee
This is the coffee that comes to save you from yourself. Neither cola nor sugary energy drinks are capable of restarting you at three in the afternoon. This is a moment of laughter with friends, a moment of “nooo, you saved me with this detail.”
It is also, although less healthy, the one that more than one likes to accompany with a cigarette or a good tobacco.
The night coffee
This is the coffee that almost no one drinks. It is the café of the brave, of people who don't want to sleep, or who can't sleep. It is the coffee of those who want to stay awake because the night promises, of those who are fighting their own war, of those who are not afraid to love and be defeated. It is the cafe for those who read at night and chat at dawn.
The sun is coming out, prepare the coffee.
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