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Cafe Nienta  rworange Jun 18, 2006 11:24 PM  A coffee discussion
on the SF was vearing too much into a general coffee drink
discussion.  Anyway, moaning about how much I hate those big
bowls used for cafe au lait (and confusing it with cafe latte),
I did some searching for the difference.  Café au Lait - let's
just say drip coffee and warm milk. There's a lot of different
definitions ... with two-thirds hot frothed milk ... 50/50 ...
milk served warm and in a separate pitcher.  There's even a
Cajun style cup of café au lait, using a dark roast that
includes chicory. Someone from New Orleans learned to his dismay
that it isn't made that way elsewhere in the country.  Caffè
Latte - espresso combined with about three times as much hot
milk topped with froth ... or so one definition says.  The link
at the bottom has a decent explanation of quite a few coffee
drinks and at least an explanation for those big bowls ... "This
open-mouthed vessel is conven