Do you know where the word “cappuccino” comes from? It’s actually pretty interesting!

To quote good ol Wikipedia:

It is the diminutive form of cappuccio in Italian, meaning “hood” or something that covers the head, thus cappuccino literally means “small capuchin”. The coffee beverage has its name not from the hood but from the colour of the hooded robes worn by monks and nuns of the Capuchin order.

I love telling people this!!!

Whenever I buy coffee somewhere, I always get an Americano. But my stupid little life-affirming ritual is that I always get a cappuccino before I go see a movie. That way it’s special. And here in Berlin, you can get a cappuccino in an actual porcelain cup AT a movie theater. And I gotta say: I love it~