Caffe Americano (1972)

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   "Caffe Americano" is not in OED and not in Merriam-Webster.  All right--it doesn't exist and I'm making it up.  No one drinks coffee.


   12 May 1972, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 83 ad:
Caffe Americano
Espresso
Cappuccino de'Medici
Caffe Ciccolato
   TRATTORIA on East 45th St., Pan Am Bldg.
(These Trattoria ads were the only NYT hits pre-1980--ed.)

   29 November 1992, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. D3:
_SURFACING_
(...)
   _COFFEE_
_Macchiato:_  The most recent coffee-milk permutation, not to be confused with caffe latte, cappuccino or caffe americano.  It's an espresso topped by just a touch of foamed milk.


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From: I840COFFEE (i840coffee at aol.com)
Subject: Re: Caffe Americano Explained
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Date: 1997/05/03


There seems to be some question about Caffe Americano.

Caffe Americano is historically an extended espresso.  That is, an
espresso to which hot water has been added to make the beverage (in the
1920's when it became popular in Italy) more palatable to the American
tourist's taste.  Later it became the name of any Amercian style coffee
which, as in defined Italy, is watery weak coffee.  Of course, Cafe
Americain is a cafe-bar-casino owned by Richard Blaine in Morocco
someplace.

-i840Coffee
"There is a great future before New Guinea, and the earliest settlers will reap the richest harvest!",  Lester Arnold (referring to New Guinea's potential as a coffee grower), 1886 .