From Switzerland, Inspired By Italy

by Natasha Wolff | April 15, 2013 12:00 am

In Naples, Italy, (pictured at left) there is only one way to drink coffee: short and dark. Trieste, a seaside city in northeast Italy, however, is more varied – natives drink their coffee in many ways. With milk, without. Long or short. They even have a unique vocabulary – “capo” means with a dash of milk, “in b” is in a glass, and “nero” translate to an espresso – that is only used in the port city. 

So, it is no surprise that when Nespresso[1], the luxury Swiss coffee company, decided to create limited-edition Italian-inspired espressos for summer[2], the result was two very different tastes. The coffee influenced by Naples is an intensely concentrated blend of beans from South America, Africa and Asia that has a strong, if traditional, taste, while the Trieste is more complicated, reflecting the complex Italian, Germanic and Slavic roots of the city. Both provide a strong flavor on their own, but also work when mixed with milk. (This editor favored the Trieste – cappuccino style.)

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