Have you skied for the whole day?
Are you in an high mountain hut? Are you tasting the
regional specialties in a typical restaurant with your family or with your best friends?
Between Valle d'Aosta’s titbits, you will find something for you:
“Caffè alla valdostana”, the typical regional
coffee.
Pour one cup of hot coffee and one cup of hot grappa
per person in the special container. Add an orange
peel, a lemon peel and a spoonful of sugar per
person and burn.
Sprinkle the spouts of the
container with sugar: with fire it will candy and it
will give a particular flavor to your hot drink.
Add the desire to be together, the persons you like,
those you love and you will have a perfect “Caffè
alla valdostana”.
In fact, the wooden container of
this drink is called “Coppa dell’amicizia”,
“Friendship’s Cup”: in Valle d'Aosta, people say that
persons who drink at the same “Coppa” will be united
by an eternal friendship.
But there is a rule to
observe: you must pass it around, “a la ronde”, and
everyone must drink a sip from a different spout.
And remember: it is strictly forbidden to put “Coppa
dell’amicizia” on the table before having finished
the coffee inside! Cheers!
