the world's first high-priced lattes: chic cafés
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The World's First High-Priced Lattes:Chic Cafés
A nation of coffee lovers
Starbucks:Paris's Avenue de l'Opera
Cafés
Coffee at all hours:right kind of coffee served with the right kind
of nibbles and in the right kind of place
Beans as souvenirs & an exotic new beverage
Coffee as a universal panacea
First lattés:"coffeed milk" or "milked coffee"
maison du café
Coffee as an inexpensive alternative to beer
The Parisian café was to be glamorous and elegant, a place where patrons would linger in order to see and be seen
Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli Café Procope
Pay for a setting glamorous to linger
Café Procope (interior) garçon de café
Street service
The essence of style
Nibbles: fare both light and elegant
Range of beverages:coffee, tea, chocolate, & limonade (“soft drinks”)
Original sidewalk cafés
Soak up some of that elusive French style
Most expensive luxury drinks of all time
Dream of Hemingway