This is Aitulagi Siilata. She comes from the village of Iva on Savai’i. Aitulagi is a barista at Amoa Resort and she likes working there - providing great hospitality is such an important part of Samoan culture, be it at work or home. At work she loves making great coffees for guests, at home, it’s Koko Samoa with her elderly mother.
While a coffee takes a few minutes, Koko Samoa is closer to half an hour - from collecting ripe fruit and roasting the beans over the fire, to sorting roasted beans and muddling them into a soft paste ready for drinking.
This is Fa’a Samoa at its very best, beautiful traditions continued in modern times by people like Aitulagi.
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