A revised, updated, Italian version of my cultural history of coffee consumption with a focus on interwar stovetop coffee makers like the Bialetti Moka Express just came out with the LUISS University Press in Rome. The book is accompanied by a new afterword which reflects critically on the economic viability of the “made in Italy” model. But the core of the book assumes the form of an account of how the autarchic cult of national…
 
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COMPETITION is the concluding chapter of the “Interconnecting Rings” (Anelli di congiunzione) exhibition trilogy, developed for one of the world’s most unique exhibition sites, the Gallerie di Piedicastello (Trento Tunnels), in support of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics by the Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino in collaboration with the Olympic Museum of Lausanne. It follows on the heels of Records (2024) and Performance (2025). All three “rings” are exhibitions in which I was involved…
 
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