雅思阅读材料之玛奇朵

　6.macchiato：玛奇朵

　　玛奇朵Macchiato在意大利文里是“印记、烙印”的意思。顾名思义，它的名字焦糖玛奇朵就象征着甜蜜的印记。 玛奇朵咖啡是奶咖啡的一种，它是先将牛奶和香草糖浆混合后再加入奶沫，然后再倒入咖啡，在奶沫上淋上网格状焦糖。Caramel Macchiato，是玛其朵咖啡的名字。Caramel 是英文里焦糖的意思， 对于那些既想享受CAPPUCCINO细腻滑爽的奶泡，又不肯放弃ESPRESSO浓烈的咖啡纯香的人来说，玛琪雅朵可能是的选择。MACCHIATO在意大利语中是一点点的意思，在一小杯ESPRESSO中直接加入一两勺奶泡，一杯玛琪雅朵就做成了。

　　Caffè macchiato (Italian pronunciation: [kafˈfɛ makˈkjaːto]), sometimes called espresso macchiato, is acoffee drink, made out of espresso with a small amount of milk. 'Macchiato' simply means 'marked' or 'stained', and in the case of caffè macchiato, this means literally 'espresso stained/marked with milk'. Traditionally it is made with one shot of espresso, and the small amount of added milk was the 'stain'. However, later the 'mark' or 'stain' came to refer to the foamed milk that was put on top to indicate the beverage has a little milk in it, usually about a teaspoon. In fact, a caffè macchiato in Portuguese is named café pingado which means coffee with a drop, the drop of milk.

　　The reason this coffee drink got its name was that the baristas needed to show the serving waiters the difference between an espresso and an espresso with a tiny bit of milk in it; the latter was 'marked'. In the United States, 'macchiato' is more likely to describe latte macchiato, thus arises the common confusion that 'macchiato' literally means 'foam', or that a macchiato must necessarily have foam. (As the term 'macchiato' to describe this type of coffee predates the common usage of foam in coffee by centuries, the staining 'agent' the additive that lightens the dark espresso, is traditionally the milk, not the foam).

　　In Italy a macchiato is thick milk foam in a small glass or cup with a shot of espresso poured through the centre of the foam leaving a rich coffee "mark" in the foam as it passes through. This may be the true origin of the espresso macchiato, but the Americanized simpler-to-make version has become the more commonly served drink. A barista may pour the shot with a small stainless steel shot pot with a spout to obtain a more accurate and sharper mark in the foam.