Cappuccino

By the 1950 the Italian cappuccino had found its form. The name cappuccino is inspired by the color of the beverage (the blend of dark coffee and milk and chocolate), which is a brownish-red, and has nothing to do with the cap of foam, which was a later addition to the drink, nor the description of a white hood or white rope as part of the costume: this is incorrect. The name of the friars themselves (and the monkey also named after them) comes from the Italian word for hood, cappuccio, which is also often used colloquially for the beverage (the ‘-ino’ suffix denotes a diminutive in Italian). The capuchin friars habit again was inspired by St Francisco from Assisis original costume -with a pointed hood and this color as it is preserved in the basilika in Assisi.