This is more amazing history of Alessi La Cupola stove-top espresso maker that builds on my last post about the Alessi Pulcina Stove-Top Espresso Maker. I provided a brief history of Alessi from their site. Additionally: Alessi was founded in 1921 as a “Workshop for the processing of brass and nickel silver sheet metal, with foundry”, Alessi…
The Alessi Pulcina stove-top coffee maker is a beautiful way to start every morning with a stylish coffee maker and amazing Italian espresso.
While it certainly is POSSIBLE that the famous stove-top espresso maker Bialetti could go out of business ANY company could go out of business? The Famous Stove-Top Espresso Maker – The Moka Yes, this blog title is a bit of click-bait, and let me tell you why. I recently read an article on Grub Street and…
I also wrote about some Italian-American businesses pushing back on Starbucks and their desires to encroach on the beautiful Italian Culture in the North End in Boston.
Starbucks is not Italian espresso and I realized that twenty years ago, I went to Italy for the first time. Some of my lasting memories are the bars and Tavola Calda in Rome where we often enjoyed sandwiches, cornetti, cappuccini and caffè espressi. This was about the same time I started to become aware of Starbucks in…
