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Bialetti: The Moka That Changed Italy

Photorealistic reconstruction of Alfonso Bialetti examining the first octagonal Moka Express in his Crusinallo workshop in 1933

Every country has objects that become so familiar that people eventually stop seeing them. In Italy, the Bialetti Moka Express is one of those objects. It stands on kitchen shelves, waits beside the stove, travels inside suitcases and reappears every…