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The History of Coffee
Coffee arrived in Europe in 1615, but there are contrasting opinions; some books say that it arrived in VEnice first, thanks to the Turks, other say that it arrived in Venice by means of merchants. Initially, it was considered more of a medicine than a drink, because it was so expensive. The first coffee shop was opened in Venice in 1683, but one of the most famous remains the "Caffè Florian" in Saint Mark's Square, dating back to 1720. These shops had become meeting points for the mixed, bourgeois and aristocratic society of the time, where they used to talk politics or find out news while drinking a cup of coffee. The way of preparing coffeeof those times has undergone several developments: the "Turkish" method, by "infusion", the system using "biggins" machines, the use of samovars, filter-coffee and other ways... right up to the beginning of the 20th century with the "neapolitan" machine. In 1933 Alfonso Bialetti, a clever artisan and inventor from the Alps in the Novara area, created the "caffettiera espresso", that would almost completely replace the "neapolitan" machine in the habits of Italians. The firts coffee-bar machine was designed in Italy in 1902 by Giusebbe Brezzera, who later assigned the patent to Desiderio Pavoni.
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