(please donate, follow and support, thanks!!!) Lygon Street in Melbourne has long been considered little Italy in Australia. Home to many prominent Italian vendors such as Cafe Di Stasio and Florentino it nurtures a thriving coffee culture, where commitment and quality is among the worlds best. However as a nation Australia has not always been privileged to enjoy the vast array of Italian food and drink now available, and significant figures have contributed greatly to our shift from “pie and tea” to enjoying the abundance of goods on offer today. Hear from the Pioneers of all things Italian, and discover how they nurtured our love affair with the flavors and style of this European country, and introduced espresso coffee to a progressively sophisticated clientele. The coffee capital of Australia, discover how Melbourne’s great cafés came to be and the influence they’ve had over the entire region. (please donate, follow and support, thanks!!!)

(Please donate, follow and support. thanks!!!) This transformed region started it’s days as Italy’s industrial centre to now being a centre for modern art and the home to the 2006 Winter Olympics. With Celtic origins and a past that includes it’s role as defensive Roman camping ground, Turin is now a city with a young vibrant coffee culture that has undergone radical change. Home to the house of Savoy, a noble family who settled the city and constructed many of the landmark buildings, Turin’s café’s have long been nurturing grounds for intellectuals, writers and poets to meet and discuss ideas. However they also functioned as places for and social and political development, and in times of conflict authorities knew they only needed to head to the coffee temples to discover the peoples mood and thoughts. Providing 60% of Italy’s coffee needs, this city is home to one of the most major coffee labels, who not only process the beans, but run education courses on coffee and constantly explore new and exiting ways to enjoy it. However people here take coffee seriously more seriously than just a drink, and consider it a way of staying together, this being most evident in the way particular coffee blends are referred to personally as “my coffee”. This philosophy is further evident in Turin’s cocoa creations, and the attention applied to the process of creating drinking chocolate and coffee combinations. Being one of Europe’s finest baroque cities, hear why Turin is Italian renaissance at it’s very best, and boasts coffee that tastes like it was made in heaven. (Please donate, follow and support. thanks!!!)