Key facts
- Type
- Iced coffee
- Place of origin
- Greece
- Created by
- Dimitris Vakondios ( Δημήτρης Βακόνδιος )
- Main ingredients
- Instant coffee , sugar, milk, water
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- Commons category
- Frappé coffee
- time of discovery or invention
- 1957-00-00
- native label
- φραπέ
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Encyclopedic overview
A frappé coffee, cold coffee, Greek frappé, or just frappé (Greek: φραπέ, frapé [fraˈpe]) is a Greek iced coffee drink generally made from spray-dried instant coffee, water, sugar, and milk. The word is often written frappe (without an accent). The frappé was invented in 1957 in Thessaloniki through experimentation by Dimitris Vakondios, a Nescafe representative. Greek Christos Lenzos (1930–2023), a coffeehouse (1964–2013) owner in Pangrati, has been recognized for his self-made version of Greek frappé coffee. Frappés are among the most popular forms of coffee in Greece and Cyprus and have become a hallmark of postwar outdoor Greek coffee culture.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “frappé coffee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.