Comments on: Lose the froth: Turin’s best cafes http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2009/11/guardian-turins-best-cafes/ Rants and Raves on Espresso Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:18:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cristina http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2009/11/guardian-turins-best-cafes/comment-page-1/#comment-5084 Cristina Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:29:11 +0000 http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/?p=4147#comment-5084 I read your excellent article on the paper version of the Guardian with pleasure because I love Turin's cafes. Allow me, however, to make a couple of pedantic points: in Italy, cappuccino is not a coffee, and it is not served in coffee cups. A coffee cup is the tiny one in which an espresso is served (in Italy an 'espresso' is simply a caffe' - in particular if you make it at home). It may be also worth pointing out that the optional (and little used) dusting of cocoa on the cappuccino is bitter cocoa, not the sweet version used in Britain which completely ruins the taste of the whole drink. The relatevely little milk used in cappuccino is not because you don't want to drawn the taste of coffee in an 'ocean of milk'. It is because if you want a lot of milk you'll ask for a caffelatte:'latte' in English, which to Italian minds is not more of a coffee than tea with milk is a type of milk in England. It is rather milk with some coffee - the size of an espresso; if you like less coffee, it becomes a latte macchiato, or 'stained milk'. As soon as coffee has more than a touch of milk (caffe' macchiato) it ceases to be coffee, and becomes another drink, with a completely different feel: whether most Italian would have caffelatte at home for breakfast, or cappuccino in a cafe' ('bar'), they would not have it after a meal. Enjoy your caffe'/caffe' macchiato/ caffe' corretto/ cappuccino/caffelatte/latte macchiato. I read your excellent article on the paper version of the Guardian with pleasure because I love Turin’s cafes. Allow me, however, to make a couple of pedantic points: in Italy, cappuccino is not a coffee, and it is not served in coffee cups. A coffee cup is the tiny one in which an espresso is served (in Italy an ‘espresso’ is simply a caffe’ – in particular if you make it at home). It may be also worth pointing out that the optional (and little used) dusting of cocoa on the cappuccino is bitter cocoa, not the sweet version used in Britain which completely ruins the taste of the whole drink. The relatevely little milk used in cappuccino is not because you don’t want to drawn the taste of coffee in an ‘ocean of milk’. It is because if you want a lot of milk you’ll ask for a caffelatte:’latte’ in English, which to Italian minds is not more of a coffee than tea with milk is a type of milk in England. It is rather milk with some coffee – the size of an espresso; if you like less coffee, it becomes a latte macchiato, or ‘stained milk’. As soon as coffee has more than a touch of milk (caffe’ macchiato) it ceases to be coffee, and becomes another drink, with a completely different feel: whether most Italian would have caffelatte at home for breakfast, or cappuccino in a cafe’ (‘bar’), they would not have it after a meal.

Enjoy your caffe’/caffe’ macchiato/ caffe’ corretto/ cappuccino/caffelatte/latte macchiato.

]]> By: Jeremy http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2009/11/guardian-turins-best-cafes/comment-page-1/#comment-5076 Jeremy Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:35:26 +0000 http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/?p=4147#comment-5076 Starbucks uses polystyrene in Britain? Starbucks uses polystyrene in Britain?

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