Café con leche is a gastronomic institution in Argentina and especially in the town of Buenos Aires. Found in each and every one of the regular pubs in the region, it is the drink most chosen by the locals both for breakfast and for lunch.
Latte is a universal language everywhere, if not so much in specialty coffee shops. In truth, in most of these new sites it does not exist as such. It’s not that there aren’t any, of course, but there are novel variations and they tend to be known by their original name in Italian, a country with a deep-rooted coffee tradition. In essence, it is the combination of coffee and milk, but in different forms, and depending on each preparation, we have the possibility of understanding how much of one and how much of the other.
The essence of a cup is the shot of coffee, that is, the base from which each and every one of the drinks is organized. The precise measure is the espresso, the result of the precise combination of a certain proportion of coffee infused over a few seconds in the machine. Of roasted origin, its name is an allusion to that short moment in which the essence of the beans that the cafeteria has chosen is obtained. From here it only remains to translate: a much longer espresso will be doppio, or double, that is, 2 shots of coffee. In such a case, the difference with that of America, which is also much more widespread, is that it extends with the addition of water.
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By Leno Volpe
Café con leche is a gastronomic institution in Argentina and especially in the town of Buenos Aires.
Found in each and every one of the usual bars in the region, it is the drink most chosen by locals both for breakfast and for snacks.