Coffee - Blood from the Bean
- Espresso - Served in very small cups, this is a dark, strong coffee made by forcing steam through finely ground, Italian-roast coffee.
- Cappuccino - Rich espresso combined with a small amount of steamed milk and then topped with a cloud of foamed milk.
- Latte - Espresso with steamed milk topped with foamed milk. Contains much more milk than a cappuccino.
- Espresso Macchiato - Espresso 'marked' with a spoonful of frothed milk. Some say this is espresso with about a half inch of milk foam (no steamed milk). But some strongly disagree. One enthusiast writes of the above definition: "Surely not. Macchiato (lit. "marked") is a dash of milk or cream in espresso." Another writes "the chap who serves me espresso, and who has been roasting coffee and selling and leasing machines for several years... tells me that Macchiato is made with half-and-half." Starbucks defines Espresso Macchiato as "1 shot of espresso in a demitasse [topped with] a small dollop of foamed milk.