Caffè Americano
£2.70
Caffè Americano is a type of coffee drink prepared by diluting an espresso with hot water, giving it a different flavor from traditionally brewed coffee. Its strength varies with the number of shots of espresso and amount of water added.
“Americano” means “American” in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Some assert the term entered the English language from Italian in the 1970s. “Caffè Americano” specifically is Italian for “American coffee”. There is a popular belief that the name has its origins in World War II when American G.I.s in Italy diluted espresso with hot water to approximate the coffee to which they were accustomed. However, the Oxford English Dictionary cites the term as a borrowing from Central American Spanish café americano, a derogatory term for mild coffee dating to the middle of the 1950s. Its first use in English appears in the Jamaican newspaper, the Sunday Gleaner, in 1964. The term caffè Americano enters Italian later than the English or Spanish uses, perhaps as a borrowing from one of the two languages.
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