Italian Coffee CultureĪbout 14 billion cups of espresso are consumed per year in Italy alone. The speed at which this coffee was produced was its main selling point.įast forward to the 21st century, and now espresso has come to mean a strong, highly concentrated serving of coffee. This patent was later put into practice 17 years later. How was this resolved? Moriondo realized that steam pressure would push the hot water through the fine grounds and express (hence the name espresso) a standard cup of coffee, but fast. Coffee is extracted faster when ground finer, but the water takes longer to pass through it. The invention of the espresso process was borne out of a desire to solve the problem of slow brewing coffee. The original espresso machine patent was filed in 1884 by Angelo Moriondo. What we know as the delicious, milky, frothy, coffee beverages here in the States would be non-existent if it were not for espresso, which is an Italian invention. Today we will discuss the big players and influencers.Įven though Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Dutch coffee cultures are all strikingly similar, we would be remiss if we were to forgo discussing the Italian contribution to European coffee culture. If we were to go in-depth in describing all of the intricacies of each European country’s coffee culture, you’d be reading for hours. Many European coffee cultures, especially those of Western Europe (Spain, Portugal, France) are extremely similar. We will see that it is every bit as much about the coffee house itself as it is about how the coffee is brewed and consumed. For Europe, it is not merely about the product, that is the beverage. It is not a continent that takes kindly to pouring fresh brew into a Styrofoam or paper cup.
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In comparison to how coffee is consumed in the United States, Europe still knows how to savor it. Needless to say, it has left its indelible mark on the culture of Europe. While coffee may have started in Ethiopia and quickly spread to the Middle East, hundreds of years later it has found its home in Europe.
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