La cultura del caffè espresso
The culture of espresso coffee
In Italy, ordering a coffee at the bar is an act loaded with of meaning cultural. Not does one deal simply of caffeine: one deals with belonging.
The first machine for espresso was patented in Turin in 1884 by Angelo Moriondo. However, it was Luigi Bezzera who, at the beginning of the twentieth century, perfected the technology and transformed espresso into a product for the masses.
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Every city Italian has its own traditions. In Naples, the coffee is thick, creamy and almost sacred: it is drunk standing up at the counter, in a few sips, without hurry but also without delay.
There exists also a dimension solidarity: the "suspended coffee", a custom Neapolitan by which which whoever has good fortune pays an extra coffee in advance for whoever cannot afford it it afford.
When in 2011 Starbucks opened its first first store in Milan, many Italians it welcomed with scepticism. For them, the coffee is not is a drink customisable in a thousand variants: it is an rite immutable.