Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:48:45 +0200https://english.radio.cz/story-old-coffee-bean-grinder-8591253© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalA 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.encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/35_7.jpg?timestamp=1591355901 https://english.radio.cz/story-old-coffee-bean-grinder-8591253 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9