PONCE ALLA LIVORNESE

Livorno Style Coffee also called Ponce alla Livornese

Hot Coffee with a Sort of Rum and Lemon Rind.

Among the gastronomic specialities which help to make Livorno a unique city we absolutely must not forget the ponce, a drink with coffee and liqueur in no way to be confused with the usual corretto.

To begin with, it’s prepared in a completely different way from the simple splash of brandy or amaro in a coffee cup.

Besides the recipe and the glass, ponce has it’s own incredible story and an etymology which, to say the least, is intriguing.

Let’s start with the latter; most dictionaries simply define it as the Italian translation of ‘punch’.

Anyone who has tasted it can tell you that a comparison between ponce and punch is like that between a black panther and a dobermann or between Cantonese rice and bucatini all’amatriciana.

Linguistic roots apart, to make a real 'poce alla livornese' discover our recipe.