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Tomoca Coffee House in Addis Ababa is a lasting reminder of the Italian occupation of Ethiopia. When I visited, almost 10 years ago, a somewhat ancient machine was producing terrific cups of espresso for a huge crowd, and they were doing a roaring trade in beans too. Tomoca is in some ways a symbol not just of Ethiopian coffee, but also of the Italian connection and, at one remove, of the way that coffee ties Italy and Ethiopia to Brazil.
Diana Garvin, an historian, recently published a paper that examines what she calls the Italian coffee triangle. She explains how Italy’s belated land grab in Africa sought to transform the colonos of Brazil, the 2.7 million immigrant Italian labourers who effectively tripled Brazilian production in a decade, into respectable colonialisti in Ethiopia, Italians who owned and oversaw coffee plantations in Ethiopia. Although their Fascist-inspired duplication of Brazilian methods utterly failed, still, Africa had a powerful hold on the Italian imagination.
Notes
- Diana Garvin’s paper The Italian coffee triangle: From Brazilian colonos to Ethiopian colonialisti was published in Modern Italy, doi:10.1017/mit.2021.26. Follow her on Twitter @DianaEGarvin.
- Chewing the Fat is one of Karima Moyer-Nocchi’s two published books. She’s on Twitter @MoyerNocchi, but not often. Better go to her website.
- Here is the transcript.
- Banner photo of Italian plantation overseer and Ethiopian workers, someone else snagged from the Archivio Luce.
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“Those cups might break, but the images keep getting recycled, and that’s why the colonial imagery of these former groups seems to endlessly duplicate even today.”
@dianaegarvin’s wise words, lifted from the transcript now available at eatthispodcast.com/coffee-italy/
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Eat This Podcast is back after the summer break, with an episode about how coffee ties Italy to Brazil and Ethiopia. The reverberations continue to echo, as @DianaEGarvin explains. Cameo appearance by @MoyerNocchi
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Eat This Podcast is back after the summer break, with an episode about how coffee ties Italy to Brazil and Ethiopia. The reverberations continue to echo, as @DianaEGarvin explains. Cameo appearance by @MoyerNocchi
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Eat This Podcast is back after the summer break, with an episode about how coffee ties Italy to Brazil and Ethiopia. The reverberations continue to echo, as @DianaEGarvin explains. Cameo appearance by @MoyerNocchi
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Connecting Italy-Brazil-Ethiopia through coffee, Italian emigration, & Italian colonialism with @DianaEGarvin
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Eat This Podcast is back after the summer break, with an episode about how coffee ties Italy to Brazil and Ethiopia. The reverberations continue to echo, as @DianaEGarvin explains. Cameo appearance by @MoyerNocchi
eatthispodcast.com/coffee-italy/
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Eat This Podcast is back after the summer break, with an episode about how coffee ties Italy to Brazil and Ethiopia. The reverberations continue to echo, as @DianaEGarvin explains. Cameo appearance by @MoyerNocchi
eatthispodcast.com/coffee-italy/
Eat This Podcast is back after the summer break, with an episode about how coffee ties Italy to Brazil and Ethiopia. The reverberations continue to echo, as @DianaEGarvin explains. Cameo appearance by @MoyerNocchi
eatthispodcast.com/coffee-italy/
on Italy-Brazil-Ethiopia and coffee #transnationalitaly
Eat This Podcast is back after the summer break, with an episode about how coffee ties Italy to Brazil and Ethiopia. The reverberations continue to echo, as @DianaEGarvin explains. Cameo appearance by @MoyerNocchi
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(always a pleasure!) to find out more about the history of coffee culture. Was coffee at some point a “Fascist” drink ?
Was coffee a Fascist beverage? Check out the latest episode of @EatPodcast to find out!
Many thanks to Jeremy Cherfas – I appreciate the depth of research that you put into each episode. It was a pleasure chatting about the global history of Italian coffee with you.