New Delhi, April 28 -- A grole or grolle is a round earthenware dish with a lid and multiple spouts. In some regions of Italy and France, it is used to serve a hot, coffee-laced alcoholic drink shared between friends by being passed from person to person. Last week, I tried drinking from a grole for the first time at an Italian restaurant in Bengaluru, La Gioia-it's not on the menu but they will bring it out if you ask nicely. The drink we were served in it was thankfully not hot but refreshingly cool, given the muggy Bengaluru weather right now, and we all dipped straws in it and sipped simultaneously (feeling thankful that the covid-19 pandemic was over) as we huddled together over the grole. The servers said our raucous group of five i...