What is cappuccino?
Cappuccino is a typical Italian coffee drink, especially from Trieste (presumably its hometown).
In Italy, cappuccino is rarely consumed at times other than the morning; on the contrary, foreigners, especially during their stay in the Bel Paese, drink cappuccino at all times of the day, even at the end of the main meals (after lunch and after dinner).
It is conceivable that the etymology of the term cappuccino is related to the color of the drink, which recalls that of the habit of the Capuchin monks. It is not excluded that, in the beginning (about 1800), the capuchin was simply a variant of the Austrian Kapuziner.
With the transalpine passage up to Trieste and the subsequent diffusion in the territories that, shortly afterwards, would become Italian, from the early 1900s the Capuchin began to take root deeply in the food culture of the whole peninsula.
