Why is espresso called espresso? If you want to know about coffee, you have to start with Italian!

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Italian has a great influence on literature and art, which is probably inextricably linked to Italy as the birthplace of the Renaissance, and the Italian words borrowed in English more or less reflect this fact. However, after all, literature and art belong to "high culture" (different from "popular culture" popular culture), and there is some distance between literature and art and the general public. We might as well start with the diet closest to the life of the common people.

There are so many street cafes in Taiwan that even convenience stores are scrambling to sell freshly brewed coffee. Looking at today's coffee culture around the world, the mainstream is Italian coffee (caff è), which also means "coffee shop" in Italian.

"latte" many people like to drink, the milk is full of flavor. The English word for latte is latte, from Italian, the original meaning is "milk", and the complete word is caff è latte (coffee with milk). There are several versions of the spelling of latte in English. In addition to the standard full name caff è latte and latte for short, the prime above è is often omitted and becomes the English caffe latte, and other different spellings are not listed. The latte can also be latte art, which literally means "latte art".

A latte-like espresso is cappuccino, which is hard to spell, with two p and then two c in the middle. Cappuccino has something to do with religion because the color of coffee is reminiscent of the robes of Catholic Friars of St. Franciscans (Capuchin), hence the name.

Lattes and cappuccinos are coffee with milk or milk, and the coffee used is based on "espresso". This espresso is homologous with the English word express, which means "press out". The principle of espresso is that the coffee is ground into fine powder by boiling high-pressure water, and the coffee is forced out by high temperature and high pressure. Espresso has another common variant word expresso.

There is another kind of "macchiato" (caff è macchiato), which means "coffee with stains". Macchiato is espresso with a small amount of milk or milk foam, so the coffee drink feels as if it is stained with white spots.

There is also a more old-fashioned "con panna", the full name is espresso con panna, which means "espresso with cream", con is Italian with (plus), panna is Italian cream (cream), here specifically refers to whipped cream (whipped cream). Campbell blue is made by covering espresso with a thick layer of whipped cream.

In recent years, a new product of affogato has become very popular. Some people have translated it as "Afgado", while others have translated it as "Afchido". This is a mixture of coffee and ice cream, somewhere between drinks and desserts. Avjiadou's approach is to pour espresso on Vanilla Ice Cream, so that the ice cream is "submerged" by coffee, which is the original meaning of affogato Italian.

The maker of espresso and related drinks such as latte, cappuccino, macchiato and Campbell blue is called barista in English and translated as "barista" in Chinese. The word also comes from Italian and originally refers to "coffee bar chef." barista's bar reveals that the place of work is in the coffee bar (coffee bar), and ista is equivalent to the English word ist, which refers to people. Barista with the first capital letter is also the English name of "Seattle Gourmet Coffee".

When it comes to espresso, you have to mention Starbucks. Starbucks is the world's largest coffee chain, founded in Seattle, Washington, USA. It has successfully popularized Italian coffee, and other companies have followed suit. Starbucks has a special frozen drink called "frappuccino". This frappuccino is a mixture of French frapp é (with crushed ice; frozen into a smoothie) and Italian cappuccino (cappuccino).