- ESPRESSO. A single demitasse of Espresso Coffee, black, usually drunk with sugar. Espresso can be flavoured with a drop or two of almond or tangerine extract.
- ESPRESSO ROMANO. A demitasse of espresso served with a twist or a thin slice of lemon on the side.
- DOUBLE or DOPPIO. A full six ounce cup of straight espresso. To be drunk only by veteran espresso bibbers, early in the morning, before a 12- hour workday and a long evening.
- CAPPUCCINO (French: Café Crème) About one third espresso, one third hot milk, topped with one third foam, in a heavy cup. Like the others, usually drunk with sugar.
- CAFÉ LATTE. (French: Café au lait; Spanish Café con leche) One or two shots of espresso; and three times as much foamed milk, in a big bowl or wide mouthed glass. This is the favoured breakfast drink of southern Europeans. Café Latte has a greater proportion of milk to coffee than a cappuccino, and tastes weaker and milkier. Strictly speaking, the milk and coffee should be poured simultaneously, one from either side of the bowl.
- ESPRESSO MACCHIATO. A demitasse of espresso marked (‘macchiato’) with a small quantity of hot foamed milk.
- LATTE MACCHIATO. An eight or ten ounce glass half filled with hot foamed milk, into which a demitasse of espresso is slowly dribbled. The coffee will colour the milk in faint, graduated layers, darker at the top, shading to a light at the bottom, all contrasting with the layer of pure white foam at the top.
- MOCHA. Not to be confused with Mocha – Java, a traditional blend of Ethiopian and Indonesian Coffees. A ‘mocha’ to an espresso aficionado is about 1 third espresso, one – third strong, unsweetened hot chocolate, and one -third steamed milk. The milk goes in last, and the whole thing is usually served in a mug. Voltaire is said to have consumed 40 cups of Mocha a day at the Café Pro cope. Some cafés garnish the foam of the cappuccino and café latte with a dash of unsweetened cocoa, which adds the subtle perfume of chocolate to the drink. Others use cinnamon, but cinnamon can give too distinctive a flavour and is to some people out of harmony with the dark tones of the coffee. Straight espresso is delicious with whipped cream (con panna), but topping a good, foamy cappuccino with whipped cream is as pointless as putting ketchup on spaghetti.
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