The right way to drink cappuccino-can you really drink cappuccino? Cappuccino method

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The plan of the year lies in spring, and the plan of the day lies in the morning. At the beginning of the new year, let me tell you one thing about coffee: did you know that cappuccino is actually a cup of breakfast drink?

First of all, let's warm up the book: cappuccino is an espresso based drink from Italy. The Chinese word for Espresso is espresso, which is made by flushing coffee powder under high pressure using near-boiling hot water. Espresso is smaller but more concentrated than other forms of coffee, such as drip or French press. An orthodox cappuccino is made from one or two servings of espresso, milk heated by steam, and milk foam formed during heating. A cup of orthodox cappuccino is a thin cup, only about 150ml of liquid, with two centimeters of foam.

The word cappuccino first appeared in northern Italy in the 1930s as an Italian evolution of Vienna coffee (adding cream foam to coffee), while the version we drink today became popular only after World War II. In Italian tradition, cappuccino with some bread and cakes (such as Croissant) is a breakfast, because to them, milk is to some extent a food rather than a drink. After noon, they will no longer drink any coffee with milk, including cappuccino, latte, macchiato and so on. If they need caffeine, they will only drink espresso. But please note that they only use the word "caff é", which means "coffee", because the word "espresso" is a professional name rather than everyday language. In Italy, espresso, as we know it, has led to other changes, such as Caf é lungo and Caf é doppio.

Another reason for the rule of not drinking cappuccino in the afternoon is that Italians believe that drinking dairy drinks when they are full of fat intestines will affect digestion. Drinking a cup of coffee or tea after dinner is a Western culinary tradition, but Italians only drink their caff é and despise tourists called cappuccino after lunch and dinner. I made the same mistake when I first visited Italy. But if you tell me, you really like to drink cappuccino, be sure to have three meals in the morning, lunch and evening, one cup for each meal, no problem, this is a free world. But for Italians, drinking cappuccino at night is like drinking Meru Avaltine Holick at night. It's a strange thing.

Italian coffee, like Japanese sushi or Hong Kong snacks, is the quintessence of traditional food culture. Their rules have their existence value, do you who know how to drink and eat follow their traditional wisdom of drinking coffee?