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Why Won’t Italians Have Cappuccino After Dinner?

By Amanda Ruggeri


The first time one Italian friend picked me up on his motorino, he almost refused to let me get on. "You're not wearing a scarf," he said, looking at me with concern.

I frowned. Of course I wasn't; the September weather was practically balmy. And then it registered. "Oh, the colpo d'aria? I'll survive," I said. After four years in Italy, I'd learned that there was one thing many Italians feared above all others: literally, the "hit of wind."

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