By Silvia Simonetti

On the occasion of Ferragosto celebrations at Casa Barbera, we met the representative of Italian coffee in Los Angeles, Matteo Pasquini, and learned about his family business while enjoying a delicious cappuccino.

Let's start from the beginning...
In 1955 my father came to the United States and opened his own business "Moka D'Oro", as there were no cafés in Los Angeles at that time. But it was very hard to import coffee from Italy, and he had few customers, so he closed it and went to work as a manufacturer of military parts.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano