This blog is awesome! Keep it coming :)

I left a comment there, will copy it here incase it’s of any interest, though I’m going to correct the typos I noticed after pressing Submit there!

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Hey, great and clever diagrams, very handy.

Forgive me if these comments have already been made, I haven’t read through the long list of previous comments – I got part way down but didn’t go the whole way!

Couple of points. Your pronunciation guide for Espresso Macchiato does’nt seem quite right. You have macchiatio as “mock-e-ah-toe” but that first syllable has a vowel more like cat than dog.

Likewise, I would represent the first syllable of panna in Espresso con Panna to rhyme with “caf” rather than your “pawn” rendering.

Secondly, the reason for the confusion about the meaning of macchiato stems from the following. Macchiato translates as “stain” (or “mark”, as someone above said). A Caffé Macchiato means an espresso with a stain of milk, i.e. just a tiny smidgen of milk. A Latte Macchiato is the opposite – a tall glass of hot milk with a stain of coffee. It’s even weaker than a regular caffé latte and usually only ordered in the morning, in Italy.

The difficulty is that, in English speaking countries, we have shorted Caffé Latte to Latte (leading to occasional confusion when tourists to more remote areas of Italy try to order a milky coffee only to be given a glass of hot milk) and one often sees just the word Macchatio on a coffee menu with no indication whether it’s a Caffé Macchiato or a Latte Macchiato!

You’d think from all this that I’m a huge coffee drinker and expert – I am neither, prefering, as it happens, tea! But I spent some time in Italy with a friend of mine (also English but who moved there decades ago and is now a real local). Her friends took the time to explain the many different coffees properly and I was then, over time, able to see how these were translated/ represented by coffee houses around the world!