Wednesday, December 10, 2003

Cappuccino

Did you know that the word cappuccino, is so called because the color of the coffee resembled the color of the habit of a Capuchin friar. We know it now as an espresso coffee mixed or topped with steamed milk or cream and often with chocolate powder.

The Capuchin order of friars, established after 1525, played an important role in bringing Catholicism back to Reformation Europe.