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Is the latte coffee?

Latte is not coffee.

Latte is a drink, latte is not coffee. Actually, latte means milk in Italian. Italian refers to latte, and many cold drinks shops will launch their own latte series, such as black tea latte and matcha latte. In fact, they are all milk tea without coffee ingredients.

Latte coffee contains coffee ingredients. Latte coffee is a mixture of coffee and milk. The method of latte is also very simple. Just add milk to the freshly brewed espresso. There is no proportional relationship between milk and coffee, it all depends on personal preference. If you add some frothy cold milk to hot coffee, it becomes an American latte. Latte coffee is a classic mixture of Italian espresso and milk, and Italians also like lattes as breakfast drinks.

Latte origin

The origin of latte can be traced back to the war between Otto Empire and Vienna, Turkey. 1683, Muhammad IV's army besieged Vienna, and the situation was urgent. Christians trapped in Vienna decided to ask Poland for reinforcements, but they had to find a messenger who could speak Turkish to deceive the Turkish army outside the city. Fanz George Kolschitsky volunteered. He deceived the enemy with fluent Turkish and swam across the Danube to ask the Polish king for help. Christian troops arrived in Vienna and drove away the Turks.

The Turkish army retreated hastily, leaving behind a lot of materials, including gold, cattle, horses and camels, and dozens of sacks of coffee beans. At that time, people in Vienna didn't know what coffee was in sacks, so no one would notice these humble coffee beans except Kocsiski, who lived in Turkey and knew how to make a lot of money with coffee beans. So he opened a blue bottle cafe.

At first, he brewed coffee completely according to the method that Turks didn't filter, but Viennese didn't like the thick and burnt Turkish coffee brewed with coffee grounds. Fanz George Kolschitsky had a brainwave, filtering coffee grounds with cloth, and then adding milk and honey to make a new refreshing drink, which was very popular among Viennese. This is also the first time that milk was combined with coffee, from the end of the seventeenth century to the beginning of the eighteenth century.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Latte