It is easy to imagine important people such as Empress Sissi or Queen Marie Antoinette sitting at small elegant tables dressed with pastries and talking about clothes, tea and politics. What is more difficult to think about is that these women, like us, had their daily favourites…one of them was the passion for sweets.

Espresso is the base of every non-filtered kind of coffee, the purest form of this drink, and also the key to understand coffee culture in Italy.

The bubbly and imaginative atmosphere of the Venice Film Festival and The Emmy Awards has arisen our curiosity: how many famous cups of coffee have been served in movie houses without being awarded the prize they deserved?

There is nothing better than a good cup of coffee, especially if you are in Italy and order an “espresso” in a Café. While we are sipping from our steaming hot cup , we are often so completely captured by the aroma and the taste that we can’t think about what a long tradition and how many curious facts are hidden in those glorious and magic little grains…

Here are some fun anedoctes you may not know about coffee!

Have you ever asked a tourist who is on holiday in Italy what is his or her favourite biscuit? In most cases, they will answer with true passion : “ The rainbow biscuits, the colored ones, the filled cookies- do you know those biscuits which remind the Italian flag?...

Europe is the country which consumes the biggest amount of coffee in the world and Scandinavian countries are top of the list with 8/9 kg a year per inhabitant (even 12 kg in Finland).