What Espresso coffee exactly is?
Espresso coffee is a type of coffee, the most consumed and known in Italy. Obtained from the roasting and grinding of the seeds of Coffea arabica and Coffea robusta, it is prepared by machine according to a process of percolation under high pressure of hot water.
How to order espresso in Italy?
When you are in Italy and in a bar you order “Espresso” it means that you are ordering the “default” coffee, pure, without milk. If you want to say it in italian language, you can say: “Un caffè per favore”. In Italy, Cappuccino is different. Cappuccino is a shot of espresso with a bit of milk and a cap (“capuccio”) of milk foam.
Nino Manfredi in a famous spot for italian TV
In the 1980s, the famous Italian actor Nino Manfredi was called to be a testimonial for an important coffee company. The commercial became famous and its slogan “più lo mandi giù e più ti tira su” (the more you put it down, the more it pulls you up) is still used today.
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