ITALIAN BREAKFAST

CAPPUCCINO AND "CORNETTO"

Italian typical breakfast is made of cappuccino, a beverage with coffee and milk, and "cornetto".

CAPPUCCINOA cappuccino is an Italian coffee drink which is prepared with espresso, hot milk and milk foam.The name comes from the Capuchin friars, referring to the colour of their habits, very similar to the colour of the beverage when milk is added in small portion to dark coffee.

'Cappuccino' originated as the coffee beverage "Kapuziner" in the Viennese coffee houses in the 1700s.Cappuccino as we write it today (in Italian) is first mentioned in northern Italy in the 1930s, and photographs from that time shows the drink to resemble a coffee topped with cream sprinkled with chocolate.

"CORNETTO"The "cornetto" is a speciality of pastry-making, made with flour, butter, eggs and sugar.The Italian name takes its origin from its shape, which remands to two corns.

The "cornetto" appeared in Italy in the XVII century thanks to the commerce between Venice and Austria, and quickly gain in fame all over the country.It can be both empty and filled with cream, jam and chocolate.

…but unluckily we couldn’t bring here for you fresh "cornettos", so we have other examples of Italian breakfast

..bread and nutella..

..bread and jam..

...sweets and biscuits..

…sponge finger cookies…

..and amarettos.

Zoom: Nutella Ferrero1946. As solution for food lack after the Second World War. Pietro Ferrero, a pastry chef from Alba, makes the ‘Giandujot’, because of the excessive taxes on cocoa: a sweet pastry made with nuts, a little sugar and a little cocoa.

1964. The birth of the secret recipe. After several experiments, Michele Ferrero, Pietro’s son, showing his huge ability, creates the first pot of a new cream made with nuts and cocoa: the name is the only ingredient missing to make it the most famous cream all over the world…connecting the English word ‘nut’ and the Latin suffix ‘ella’, NUTELLA® was born.