Milano-Torino

The name, often shortened to Mi-To, joins the home cities of its two ingredients: Milan, home of Campari bitter, and Turin, the birthplace of sweet red vermouth. Tradition places its birth in the 1860s at the Milan café of Gaspare Campari, the creator of the bitter, and some sources link it to the Camparino in Galleria, which was actually opened by his son Davide in 1915. No period written evidence documenting this origin has emerged. According to the most common accounts, adding soda gave rise to the Americano and adding gin to the Negroni: this is why the Milano-Torino is regarded as the ancestor of a whole family of Italian aperitivi.