Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Kapuziner.


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Croissants the military dimension I have heard of. Cappuccino I have not heard of!

"Origins of Cappuccino: A Saintly Friar and a Battle Against the Turks"

From https://pjmedia.com | article by CATHERINE SALGADO  AUGUST 13, 2023

"Many Americans love cappuccino, but few people know where the name comes from. Cappuccinos are named for a holy Capuchin priest who was chaplain to an army fighting Ottoman Turks to defend Christian Europe."

"Blessed Mark (or Marco) of Aviano is a saint celebrated by Catholics on August 13, and the name cappuccino comes from the name of the religious order Mark joined, the Capuchins. To understand the story of cappuccino, it helps to know a little about Blessed Mark himself."

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"So where does coffee come in? Well, it was at the end of the Battle of Vienna [1683]. There are two stories about how cappuccino was invented . . . The more widely known and widely accepted version (which seems to be older, too) is as follows:

After the capture of the Turkish camp at the end of the battle, the imperial soldiers found hundreds of bags of coffee, together with numerous other treasures left behind by the defeated army.

The bitterness of this product, quite unknown in the West at that time, had a repellent effect on the soldiers, so Blessed Marco advised them to mix the beverage with some milk to sweeten it. The delicious beverage, which also happened to have the same color as the friar’s habit, was then called kapuziner in his honor and rapidly spread through Vienna and the rest of the Holy Roman Empire."

Now you know the rest of the story.

See previous blog entry that topic Turkish coffee:

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2022/07/cezve.html

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