ESPRESSO FOR EVERYONE From the bitter, black and boiling espresso to espresso crema, companies, characters, trials and errors passed by, and for almost 40 years the taste of coffee was anchored to that of the early days. Until a new invention from the barista Achille Gaggia from Milan finally made it possible to dispense with […]

ESPRESSO IN TIME In 1912, a man from Milan, Giuseppe Cimbali, founded a small workshop in the centre of the city, where he offered his services in ‘hydraulic engineering and general repairs’. This legacy has since been handed down through the family for 110 years, with the company becoming a world leader in the sector. […]

ESPRESSO BEYOND BORDERS From Milan we return to Turin, where the espresso coffee machine ‘gets its wings’, metaphorically and literally thanks to the eagle that Pier Teresio Arduino places on the top of his machines, choosing it as the brand’s distinguishing element to project out into the world. Thanks to him, the first steps are […]

EARLY ESPRESSO After the important figures who laid the foundations of our history, we go on to meet the two faces that began to write the history of espresso coffee served fresh and quickly in the moment just for the customer. Two men from Milan, the inventor Luigi Bezzera and the industrialist Desiderio Pavoni, together […]

PRE-ESPRESSO The two faces we meet at the beginning of the journey are forerunners of ‘espresso’ understood as a drink extracted in the moment specifically for the customer and in a short amount of time. These two people had some ingenious intuitions that went beyond the concept of boiled and decocted Turkish-style coffee, which was […]

Would you like to come with us on a journey of discovery of the characters who wrote the history of espresso? In this column packed with content each week, you can find out about the people who, from the end of the 19th century onwards, contributed to the development of the sector, with intuition, creativity, […]