Common sense of cappuccino History of Cappuccino

The monks of Capuchin, founded after 1525, wore brown robes and pointed hats. When the Franciscan Church arrived in Italy, the local people thought that the friars 'clothing was very special, so they gave them the name Cappuccino, which means the loose robe and small pointed hat worn by monks in Italian, from the Italian "turban" or Cappuccio.

However, the old Italian love coffee, found that espresso, milk and milk foam mixed, the color is like a monk wearing a dark brown Taoist robe, so inspired, give milk coffee and pointed milk foam drink, named Cappuccino (Cappuccino).

The word was first used in English in 1948, when a San Francisco report first introduced cappuccino, and it was not until 1990 that it became a familiar coffee drink.

Cappuccino is also associated with a monkey name. There is a small African monkey with a tuft of black conical hair on the top of its head, much like the small pointed hat on the robes of St. Francis Church. This little monkey is also named Capuchin, which was first used by the British in 1785. Capuchin, the name for coffee drinks and monkeys that emerged hundreds of years later, has been a favorite anecdote among literary scholars.