Illy coffee: When Hungarian mind meets with Italian flavour

Letölthető tartalmakIlly Coffee – brit – mp3LETÖLTÉS Before inventing his revolutionary coffee machine, Francesco Illy was called Ferenc Illy and he lived in Hungary in the era of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The Hungarian-born financial accountant and bookkeeper was brought up in Temesvár (Timișoara in today’s Romania) where he studied economics. After secondary school Illy left his home town and moved to Vienna to learn the trade of business through working for big companies. At the age of 22 he had to face the fate of his generation as he got conscripted into the army. Serving at the Italian front of the First World War, he decided to stay with his sister in Trieste after the war. In the early 1920s Ferenc Illy married an Italian woman, Vittoria, and found work with companies dealing with cocoa and coffee roasting. In 1933 he founded his own company, the Illy Caffè, and formed a partnership with a local coffee manufacturer called Hausbrandt. Later he invented his own method for maintaining the quality of freshly roasted coffee so it could be delivered to other locations rather than roasting it on site. The 1935 invention of “illetta”, the first automatic coffee machine which substituted pressurized water for steam, […]