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CVI • N. 41 • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014 • GIOVEDÌ 9 OTTOBRE 2014 FACEBOOK.COM/ITALOAMERICANONEWSPAPER Creativity and curiosity have always been distinguishing features of the Italian spirit and have inspired countless works of art as well as adventurous journeys of discovery italoamericano.com $ 1.20 DATED MATERIAL - DO NOT DELAY Continued on page 3 The Italian spirit of discovery: to the New World and beyond An exhibition dedicated to the father of the Italian coffee machine, la Moka GIuLIA LOuISE STEIGERwALT Italy is a land of saints, poets, and sailors. This was as true in the 15 th century, when What would Italy be without " il caffé"? Coffee wasn't invented in Italy, but certainly Italy has cre- ated such a unique and powerful coffee culture that it would be easy to think otherwise. Imagine waking up in an Italian house in the morning and not drinking an espresso or a cappuccino. It sounds like a hor- ror/sci-fi movie where suddenly the world is upside-down. Yet we must accept that it was not always so. The earliest credible evidence of either coffee drinking or Continued on page 2 One of the most iconic images of coffee in Italy is the Moka Express cof- feemaker produced by engineer Bialetti in 1933 Christopher Columbus sailed off, as it is today. Creativity and curiosity have always been dis- tinguishing features of the Italian spirit and inspired countless works of art as well as adventur- ous journeys of discovery. Starting with the ancient Roman Empire, our ancestors traveled not only within Europe and the Mediterranean but also SILVIA SIMONETTI Continua a pagina 28 BARBARA MINAFRA Dopo l'Unità d'Italia del 1861, c'è stata una grande ondata migratoria che ha mas- sicciamente interessato il conti- nente americano. Il fenomeno ha avuto inizio nelle regioni settentrionali e si è poi esteso a quelle del Mezzogiorno, da cui si partiva costretti da condizioni economiche assai precarie. La Grande Emigrazione, tra il 1880 e il 1924, ha portato circa 5 milioni di italiani a lasciare il loro paese, a sbarcare a Ellis Island, nel porto della città di New York, e a iniziare un'avventura nel Nuovo Mondo che per moltissimi si trattò di una parentesi, spesso sfortuna- ta, che si concluse con il ritorno in patria. Questo grande flusso si ridurrà a partire dagli anni '20 del Novecento fino ad esau- rirsi con la II Guerra Mondiale Nel duro lavoro il successo degli italoamericani

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