Pressing times for espresso
ANDREA Consilvio did something this spring that he called 'a little crazy' – he bought an old and well-known coffee bar in the northwestern Italian city of Turin, his hometown.
Brewing coffee for coffee-obsessed Italians, the people who invented espresso and the commercial machines and stovetop pots to make it, might hardly seem like a leap of faith.
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