Non Italian coffee culture creates pressure coffees

Wotcher,

Nothing screams futurist fascism like a Moka pot or espresso machine. Daily in Australia workers worship at the black face of the failed Italian revolution like socialist workers forced to drink a double shot castor oil soy latte. The aesthetics of pressure coffee are the aesthetics of early 20th century Italy. I will leave it for the non pessimist to suggest a world of Gramsci’s coffee diaries.

Italy was well placed with coffee as a skilled working class commodity coming late, pressure vessels being readily available, and industrialisation and nationalisation late also. The convergence over-determined in someways the cappuccino. But why not elsewhere?

Pressure coffee is such a viable joy that should it be pioneered in Dublin, Glasgow, Oporto or Belgrade it should succeed and bring its stylings with it on its success?

Where else could I get a doppio?

Yours,
Sam R.
 
Pressure coffee is such a viable joy that should it be pioneered in Dublin, Glasgow, Oporto or Belgrade it should succeed and bring its stylings with it on its success?

Where else could I get a doppio?

Believe or not a great candidate is Brazil. Brazil produced 76% of the world coffe in 1930 so I think that if we can turn our coffe into something "cult" this could be done. :cool:

The problem is that I only can say that we had the possibility; I cannot say which were the candidates on the popular culture to promote such a thing... We already could buy these different coffes like Capucchino and doppio but the average brazilian only tasted the black coffe or the coffe-with-milk, the others are "unnecesarily expensive", it is just not worth buying a cappuchino even if you have the money since the black coffe is way more cheaper. :p
 
It’s c19 but what about italo Brazilians under the empire creating pressurised coffee, possibly from a valve and pressure cooker?
 
It could work... In fact I never tough why this didn't happened otl. :confused: Let me see if a expert can help us. I summon you, RISE @Guilherme Loureiro

Eh, never thought of that either. The only thing that comes to mind is when the Italian immigrants came to Brazil, they adopted the Brazilian customs regarding coffee, probably because they didn't have the habit of drinking coffee before. How widespread was coffee drinking in Italy, especially beyond the urban areas, in the late 19th Century?
 
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