Posted by TheShot on 09 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew
According to yesterday’s Daily Telegraph (London), the tiny Sicilian town of Partinico has defined a social ritual to counter Italy’s struggles with the rising price of coffee: Italians share coffee to beat price rise - Telegraph. Because of the higher prices, and the Italian need for several cups of espresso a day, some Italians have [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 07 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Fair Trade, Quality Issues, Roasting
The London Times today published a business section interview of Andrea Illy, the head of IllyCaffè: The original Mr Bean - Times Online.
More of a financial/business article, it discusses Illy’s role in the world of specialty coffee — touching on Illy’s technical innovations (some of them regrettable, IMO), brand positioning, and even Mr. Illy’s belief [...]
Posted by TheShot on 31 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Café Society, Foreign Brew
All is not well in the Italian Peninsula, and there are few things that can inspire Garibaldi’s Redshirts to go marching again like the price of that all-important daily staple of life: the espresso. This week, the Milan-based national paper, Corriere della Sera, reported on the shocking surprise many Italians received upon their return from [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 26 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Barista, Café Society, Foreign Brew
I’ve been planning another road trip to Torino this October — my first since 2004. The wine and food are always excellent, the tourists are hard to come by (you can have an Italian city of almost a million people to yourself), Juventus is back in Serie A (and yesterday started the season off smashingly), [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 12 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Café Society, Fair Trade, Foreign Brew
Yesterday a friend of a friend (now living in Italy) posted in her blog on the variety of standard coffee offerings you can find at a typical Italian caffè: How to Order an Italian Coffee in Italy — Ms. Adventures in Italy. Also included in the post are a variety of photos, instructions on how [...]
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