Ready...Set...Coffee Break!
TGIF everyone, and happy National Coffee Break Day! On January 20th the National Coffee Association reminds us to take a break and bond with friends and colleagues over a cup of coffee. The ZeroCater team frequently enjoys coffee in the afternoons from Jackson Place Cafe, a little oasis that’s replete with old-world charm and most importantly, Blue Bottle coffee.
A few of us have started ordering a specialty coffee drink with a half dozen names: wet macchiato, cortado, bica pingada, pingo, garoto, cortadito, tallat, trencat, gibraltar or africano. Oliver Strand describes the drink and its origins in a New York Times post called “A Cortado Is Not a Minivan”:
is a coffee drink that sits at the midway point between a macchiato and a cappuccino. It’s about four ounces total — a little less than two ounces of espresso topped with a little more than two ounces of steamed milk — which makes it strong but small, easy to drink quickly and milky enough to seem indulgent.
Most of all, it’s balanced. You taste the coffee. You taste the milk. And if it’s well crafted — the milk stretched (steamed for volume) and spun (steamed for temperature and texture) so that it has the tight bubbles of a latte — it’s deeply satisfying.
Here in the office we also held a little “ugliest mug” contest for our in-house drinks. Nudity inadvertently proved to be a theme.
Are you taking a coffee break yet? No break time is complete without a funny video. Here’s one of our favorites, depicting a particularly outspoken new employee, Terry Tate, Office Linebacker (warning: contains strong language):
YOU KILL THE JOE, YOU MAKE SOME MO’! YOU KNOW THAT, BABY!
