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Coffee tickles Trieste
23 de dezembro de 2005 | Sem comentários
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Por: ANSA, Italy
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![[foto]](http://ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/english/med/397b067b21938993b812b6fb59a560e3.jpg) Show offers cameos of port’s trade through the ages – (ANSA) – Trieste is celebrating the oriental coffee trade that made Italy’s gateway to the Orient a melting pot that inspired writers and poets .From Boxing Day until New Year’s Day the city’s Art Deco cafes will play host to recreations that highlight the central role coffee and other Asiatic imports had in the city’s growth into the most important port of the Hapsburg Empire . The shows in ‘The Ways of Coffee’ each kick off with a historical figure standing at the port’s harbour . A Roman trader, a Middle Ages merchant, and an importing impresario of the sort immortalised by great historical novelist Italo Svevo – Joyce’s pupil – will show the goods coming into Trieste at each era and illustrate the various phases in the city’s development . An eastern atmosphere will be created by traditional music from the Balkans. The ensuing shows will range from Indian and Sri Lankan exoticism to a recreation of the sense of wonder aroused in the city by Marco Polo’s tales of far-off lands . The coffee on offer in the historic Art Nouveau cafes – Caffe’ San Marco, Tergesteo, Tommaseo and Caffe’ degli Specchi – will be an array of pungent mixes from Darjeeling in northern India, Mysore in southern India, and Sri Lanka, served up with free pastries . The shows will also recreate the erudite feel of the cafes during their heyday as intellectual clubs in which the city’s intelligentsia discussed the latest ideas from MittelEuropa (Middle Europe) – intellectual hotbeds like Vienna and Prague . This aspect of the old Hapsburg port was the one that most fascinated, Joyce, who spent several years in Trieste as an English-language teacher, Svevo being the most famous of his students. The event will also honour coffee’s cousin tea, which will feature in a series of daily tastings at Trieste’s Civic Museum of Oriental Art . According to legends handed down over the years in Turkey, the first coffee beans arrived in Europe in the second half of the 17th century, brought by a Russian trader . |