Posted by TheShot on 13 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Café Society, Foreign Brew
This past weekend, the Sunday Herald (Scotland) published an article on Trieste, Italy and some its great cafés: A Shot In The Dark (from Sunday Herald). (Trieste is also home to illycaffè and the namesake for the local legend, Caffé Trieste.) The article touches on Caffè Tommaseo, the historic Caffè San Marco, Caffè Degli Specchi, [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 28 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Barista, Foreign Brew, Starbucks
Yesterday Public Radio International’s (PRI) The World aired a broadcast on the Italian espresso: Espresso | PRI’s The World. While every news outlet in America was regurgitating Starbucks‘ publicity over their token three-hour store closure for employee training, reporter David Leveille took a different approach by interviewing the art of the espresso from a distinctly [...]
[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 [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 14 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Barista, Foreign Brew, Quality Issues
TIME magazine posted a “Summer Journey” special documenting the theme of “we are what we eat.” One of the stops of this photo essay is an espresso bar in southwest Rome: Black Magic: The Perfect Espresso - TIME’s Summer Journey | TIME. The author, a California expatriate and recovered Starbucks addict, waxes on the joys [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 08 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Café Society, Quality Issues, Starbucks
Sometimes it’s quite revealing to see America through foreign eyes. Case and point with a post today on an Italian blog that covers the subject of tourism in the good ol’ U.S. of A.: Guida USA - Info, foto e video. - » L’espresso “solo” da Starbucks. It gave me a chance to put my [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 29 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Quality Issues
The Istituto Nazionale Espresso Italiano (INEI), or the National Italian Espresso Institute, was born with the certification of quality standards for the Italian Espresso in 1998. Today they announced new certification standards for the Cappuccino: Agenzia Giornalistica Italia - News In English - Italian Products: Cappuccino Obtains Certificate of Quality.
Organizations such as the INEI really [...]
Posted by TheShot on 02 May 2006 | Tagged as: Barista
Today’s Adelaide (Australia) The Advertiser featured a brief article on Paul Bassett, Sydney resident and winner of the 2003 World Barista Championship (held in Boston): The Advertiser: Cup always half-full [03may06].
In the article, Paul mentions how he discovered his calling during his travels in Siena, Italy in the late 1990s — where he was mesmerized [...]
Posted by TheShot on 28 Mar 2006 | Tagged as: Café Society, Foreign Brew
The Sunday New York Times Travel section featured an article on Rome and the flavors of Rome in particular: The Bounty of Rome - New York Times. Its author, Mimi Sheraton, opens the article with the thoughts that first come to her mind when someone says “Rome”: Sant’Eustachio il caffè (but of course!). It’s worth [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 05 Mar 2006 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew
From today’s The Gazette, a primer on a few international coffee options in Montreal, Canada: How do you take your coffee?
The article includes example cafés, and customs, for Italy, Arabia, Greece, and Vietnam:
Cafe Milano: Just as no Italian will be caught in “short pants” after the age of 11, no Italian will be caught with [...]
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