'Spro...Cap...Sig...even Third Wave: What's with all these new words?? Americans, while attempting to make the coffee business our own, have bastardized something that we did not invent. Don't get me wrong, I love the recent explosion of good coffee in America. But come on; Espresso is a beautiful word. Cappuccino was named after the Capuchin monks with their white hoods. This is history, and part of the origins of our business. The new barista slang seems to forget this, in an attempt to be fresh and hip.
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