FZ Magazine: The Blog of Filicori Zecchini
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How to store coffee: secrets and advice for preserving the flavor
We all know that strong, unmistakable aroma of just opened coffee. And it is precisely that smell that we...
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World Coffee Day: an opportunity to discover a world and its faces
Today we celebrate the product that marks the beginning of our days and closes our meals with gusto. October 1 is, in fact, World Coffee Day, an unmissable date for
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Coffee in a glass cup or a coffee cup?
Often we Italians drive bartenders crazy with the strangest requests. But after the great diatribe between supporters of “normal” coffee and those who cannot do without their decaffeinated, there’s another...
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The art of painting with coffee
Tea and coffee have been used for painting since ancient times: the Chinese used tea to make the backgrounds of the...
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The Brasilena and the recipe for coffee soda
Hot summer afternoons need drinks which provide refreshment and cool you down: the Brasilena, or coffee soda, is made precisely for this purpose
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The tradition of coffee in Naples: the pending coffee
“Once upon a time in Naples, in the Sanità district, when a person was happy because something had gone well for him, instead of just paying for one coffee at the bar, he paid...
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Cold Brew: the history of the drink and the method of cold extraction
Have you ever heard of Cold Brew Coffee? Exactly as the name suggests, it is that delicious variety of coffee, much loved in the United States, and ideal in the summer,...
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The Dolce Vita and the Sambuca fly
In Italian tradition, as in that of other countries, the combinations of alcohol and coffee are plentiful: some have become...
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Milan Coffee Festival, the first great Italian festival dedicated to coffee
In a country like Italy where coffee is not just a drink, but a consolidated tradition and the center of a global business, we were still waiting for a festival...
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Why the Laboratorio dell’Espresso blog was created (by Luca Filicori)
The first sense with which I got to know coffee was my sense of smell, the most primordial of all our senses; that hot, pleasant and persistent smell that impregnated my father’s clothes,...
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Does green coffee really work? Truths and myths
The latest news from the world of coffee concerns the benefits of green coffee. According to its supporters, green coffee helps...