Coffee and milk have been part of European cuisine since the seventeenth century. Caffè e latte, Milchkaffee, café au
lait, and café con leche are domestic terms of traditional ways of drinking coffee, usually as part of breakfast in the
home. Public cafés in Europe and the USA seem to have no mention of the terms until the twentieth century, although
Kapuziner is mentioned in Austrian coffee houses in Vienna and Trieste in the second half of 1700s as "coffee with
cream, spices, and sugar" (being the origin of the Italian cappuccino).
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term caffè e latte was first used in English in 1867 by William Dean
Howells in his essay "Italian Journeys".
Kenneth Davids maintains that "...breakfast drinks of this kind have existed
in Europe for generations, but the (commercial) caffè version of this drink is an American invention".[dubious –
discuss] The French term café au lait was used in cafés in several countries in western continental Europe from 1900
onward, however, the term café crème was used in France for coffee with milk or cream.
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