The ritual of full-flavoured, deep, fragrant coffee has spanned over four generations at a slow, inexorable pace. Ancient, brand-new, deeply ingrained but cosmopolitan, transformational, enjoyable coffee: Morettino, from Palermo to the world at a slow pace. Arturo, Angelo, Alberto, Alessandro, Andrea... their names only begin with A. And, as Andrea Morettino tells, it happened almost by chance, just the way things happen, the way traditions begin. Four generations of capital A with a unique passion: the black gold of Italian morning awakening, which is not Italian (actually: it was not...), namely, coffee. It all started at the Spezie e Coloniali shop in San Lorenzo ai Colli, a residential area of Palermo. In Sicily, in the 1920s, coffee was just one of the odd things in the shop. It was Arturo who began nurturing the passion. A tireless worker, he made blends, tried methods and created the coffee roasting business. In a historical period when cafés were the venues for culture, meetings,

About love and personal stories

We are in a network of relationships of which family is, perhaps, the primary core, the original one. As a matter of fact, the first core is the relationship we weave with ourselves. In these pages, we will read more than once how the lockdown – and the pandemic in a before-and-after variable – has been an opportunity for someone. Therefore, reading between the lines, there is always an opportunity if you know how to seize it, find it and make it yours. It takes healthy awareness.

For example, my great opportunity has been to rediscover myself and return to the oldest and most ambiguous of relationships: the one with myself. From there, I found my family and my own centre of gravity, the primary core that has always been there, a speck inside the vortex of work, things to do, and projects. I risked annihilating myself – and, perha