The history of Cappuccino, the culture of fancy coffee

The monks of the St. Franciscan Church (Capuchin), founded after 1525, wore brown robes and pointed hats. When the St. Franciscan Church spread to Italy, the locals thought the monks' clothes were special, so they gave them the name Cappuccino. The Italian word refers to the loose robes and pointed hats worn by monks, derived from the Italian "headscarf" or Cappuccio.

However, Old Yi loved coffee and found that when espresso, milk and milk foam were mixed, the color was like the dark brown robe worn by monks, so he came up with a drink with coffee and sharp milk bubbles, which was named Cappuccino.

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

Cappuccino is also related to the name of a monkey. There is a small monkey in Africa with a black cone-shaped hair on its head, much like a pointed hat on a St. Franciscan robe, hence the name Capuchin, which was first used by the British in 1785. The word Capuchin has generated coffee drink names and monkey names hundreds of years later, which has always been an interesting story for literati.