One person prepares the cup and this person is in charge of pouring the water and the stirring. The tradition is to share the cup with family and friends while enjoying a good conversation. You simply keep adding the hot water as you drink the mate. You put the mate leaves in the cup, add hot water and put a metal straw in it. You drink mate from a cup made out of calabash gourd. It’s a really delicious caffeine-rich drink and there’s an entire ritual to drinking it. “What keeps me going is not coffee, but Argentina’s national beverage mate. Whereas most people living in the Netherlands would go for coffee to keep them awake, Camilo goes for a more exotic drink. Life is very busy now, with work and my daughter, and I feel sleepy a lot.” “But nowadays my instruments stare at me from the corner of the room, making me feel guilty because I don’t play them anymore. I started playing the piano at a young age and started playing the electric guitar as a teenager, because, you know, at that age you think that’s so much cooler,” Camilo laughs. My dad is a conductor and my grandfather used to sing in a large classical choir that toured Argentina with European orchestras. What does he miss most about Argentina besides his family? When he was three years old, he moved to Germany with his parents, who had done their post-graduate studies there.
Camilo Erlichman, Assistant Professor in History, has his roots in Argentina.
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