Coffee Culture

Coffee Culture on Euromaxx, Deutsche Welle

'Cimbali is the world's leading manufacturer of espresso machines. It's MUMAC museum near Milan is devoted to the daily Italian ritual of drinking coffee. On show are 200 machines by various manufacturers and a display that gives visitors insight into 100 years of technology, design and the culture of brewing a perfect espresso.'

Gelati

Carpigiani van at a fairground in Bologna, Italy, 1958

There is a new museum just out of the city of Bologna, Italy, in Anzola dell'Emilia, dedicated to gelati, the Italian ice cream. The museum is at the headquarters of Carpigiani, the world-popular gelato machine which was founded in Bologna in 1946. The origin of gelati as we know it today, is said to be traced back to the Medici; Cosimo Ruggieri, and alchemist and astrologer to Caterina de' Medici in the 16th Century. The free museum features and tells the tale of many histories and stories of the delicious dessert. One day I will visit!

A gelatiere hands a cone to a child in Cannes, France, 1926

Carpigiani promotional campaign, 1960s, Italy

Children waiting at an ice-cream van in 1960s England

A woman serving ice-cream in 1950s Germany

A 1960s Italian gelateria with Carpigiani Singola soft serve machine

Gelato artisans stand next to a large batch freezer in their shop in Vienna, Austria, in 1906