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Also known as Caramel macchiato

coffee beverage

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Encyclopedic overview

A glass of latte macchiato Latte macchiato ( Italian: [ˈlatte makˈkjaːto]) is a coffee beverage. The name is Italian for 'stained milk', referring to the way the drink is prepared, by pouring a shot of espresso into steamed milk. It is a play on caffè macchiato, an older drink consisting of espresso marked with a dollop or two of milk or cream.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “latte macchiato” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.