Do you really drink Cappuccino? How to drink the right cappuccino

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A year's plan is in spring, a day's plan is in morning. Let me tell you something about coffee at the start of the new year: did you know cappuccino is actually a breakfast drink?

Cappuccino is an espresso based drink from Italy. Espresso, Chinese for espresso, is brewed with nearly boiling hot water at high pressure over coffee grounds. Espresso coffee is smaller but stronger than coffee brewed in other ways, such as drip or French press. An authentic cappuccino is made with one or two espresso coffee, steam-heated milk, and milk foam formed during the heating process. An orthodox cappuccino is a thin glass, containing only about 150 ml of liquid, with a two-centimeter foam.

The word cappuccino first appeared in northern Italy in the 1930s, an Italian evolution of Vienna coffee (coffee with cream foam), and the version we drink today became popular only after World War II. In Italian tradition, cappuccino is served with bread and pastries (such as croissants) as a breakfast, because milk is to some extent a food rather than a drink for them. After noon, they stopped drinking any coffee with milk in it, including cappuccino, latte, macchiato, etc., and if they needed caffeine, they drank only espresso. But please note that they will only use the word "caffé", which means "coffee", because the word "espresso" is a professional name and not an everyday term. In Italy, caffé is what we know as espresso, and from this comes other variations such as caffé lungo and caffé doppio.

Another reason for the rule against cappuccino in the afternoon is that Italians believe that drinking dairy drinks when they are full of fat affects digestion. Drinking a cup of coffee or tea after a meal is a Western culinary tradition, but Italians only drink their caffé and despise tourists who call cappuccino after lunch and dinner! I made the same mistake the first time I visited Italy…but if you tell me you really like cappuccino, make sure you have a cup of cappuccino for breakfast, lunch and dinner, no problem, this is a free world. But for Italians, drinking cappuccino at night is like drinking merlot avocado at night. It's strange enough.

Italian coffee, like Japanese sushi or Hong Kong dim sum, is the essence of traditional food culture. Their rules have their value, and don't you, who know how to drink and eat, disobey their conventional wisdom about coffee?