The origin story of latte-Blue Bottle Cafe turned out to be the ancestor of Caffe' Latte?

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[the Origin of lattes]

Although Caffe' Latte with milk and coffee is in Italian, the drink was not invented in the old sense. The origin of latte can be traced back to the war between the Ottoman Empire of Turkey and Vienna. When Mohammed IV's Muslim army besieged Vienna in 1683, the war was urgent. Christians trapped in Vienna decided to ask Poland for help, but they had to find a Turkish-speaking messenger before they could hide it from the Turkish army outside the city. Fanz George Kolschitsky, a Viennese who had done business in Turkey for many years, volunteered to fight. He cheated the enemy in fluent Turkish and swam across the Danube to ask the king of Poland for help. The army of Christ arrived in Vienna and drove the Turks away.

The Turkish army retreated in panic but left behind large quantities of supplies, including gold, cattle, horses and camels, as well as dozens of sacks of coffee beans. At that time, the Viennese did not know what the coffee in the sack was and thought it was feed for livestock, so no one paid any attention to the inconspicuous coffee beans, but Kochsky moved all the coffee beans because he had lived in Turkey and knew how to make a lot of money from coffee beans.

So he opened a Blue bottle Cafe (Blue Bottle). At first he made coffee in exactly the unfiltered way of the Turks, but Viennese were not used to drinking Turkish coffee with coffee powder and thick charred coffee. Kochsky had an idea to filter out the coffee grounds with cloth and add milk and honey to become a new refreshing drink that was very popular among Viennese. It was also the first time that milk was combined with coffee, around the end of the 17th century to the beginning of the 18th century. At that time, technology was not enough to invent high-pressure steam foam equipment, but Kochisky's idea of coffee with milk also gave coffee a more expensive way to drink, making it the ancestor of today's Caffe' Latte.

The Blue bottle Cafe has also become the most classic coffee shop in Europe, with many painters using it as a painting genre. Vienna also treasures a number of pictures of the painter Kochsky entertaining guests, which shows how popular the Blue bottle Cafe was at that time.

Latte Coffee because latte means fresh milk in Italian. In the English world, it generally refers to coffee brewed with hot fresh milk. The French word lait is synonymous with the Italian word latte, which means milk. Latte Coffee, the so-called coffee with milk, is usually translated directly as "latte". As for the French word Cafe au Lait, which means coffee with milk, it is commonly known as "coffee O'Lei" or "O'Lei coffee".

It was not until the 1980s that the term latte was used outside Italy. A typical latte consists of 1/3 espresso Espresso and 2/3 fresh milk, usually without foam. It has more fresh milk flavor than cappuccino.

When you go to a coffee shop, anyone who likes a mild taste will call a cup of Latte. In fact, latte refers to milk, and correctly it should be called Caffe Latte. And what is Flat White?

Caffe Latte is Expresso + large cups of heated milk, and the milk will beat until it bubbles when heated, so each cup of Latte will have a layer of foam.

Flat White is very similar to Latte, except that it is milk foam. Flat White is the popular drink of Australia and New Zealand, but it is relatively rare in China. Both are expresso + large cups of heated milk. But Flat White usually uses less milk than Caffe Latte, and when heating the milk, it is usually heated to just boil, or cool to 70C after it is boiled. The point is that it doesn't make the milk bubble. there is almost no foam when you pour it into the cup, but it tastes smoother and smoother.