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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