THE NEW YORK TIMES - September 29, 2015
What if the cappuccino you had this morning was not,
in fact, a cappuccino? Scary. More worrisome still: What if your flat
white was?
There was a time when cappuccino
was easy to identify. It was a shot of espresso with steamed milk and a
meringue-like milk foam on top. But now the onetime king of specialty
coffee drinks is having a bit of an identity crisis.
Even
among experts, there is considerable disagreement concerning what
exactly a cappuccino is, with some of those in the know focusing on the
size of the drink as its distinguishing characteristic.
“In the U.S., cappuccino are small, medium and large, and that actually doesn’t exist,” the food and coffee writer Oliver Strand said. “Cappuccino is basically a four-ounce drink.”
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