By www.BuyOrganicCoffee.org
Café Medici brings to mind the
wealthy banking Italian family from
Florence that produced four Popes for
the Catholic Church.
Café Medici brings to mind the
Renaissance as well as high level
intrigue relating to this famous family.
Surprisingly Café Medici did not
originate in Florence or Italy for that
matter.
Café Medici was a creation of a well-
known coffee house in Seattle.
The Last Exit on Brooklyn was
founded in 1967 and was part of the
early coffee culture of Seattle.
Basically Café Medici is a type of
coffee house coffee.
The drink is sufficiently popular that
they will know how to make it in coffee
houses across the country.
How Do You Make Café Medici?
The ingredients for a Café Medici are
a double shot of expresso, also called
a doppio (which is Italian), chocolate
syrup, orange peel and whipped
cream.
Use an espresso cup. Put orange peel
and chocolate syrup in the bottom.
Extract the espresso directly into the
cup. Top with whipped cream and
serve.
Our preference is to use healthy
organic coffee for this brew.
Where to find organic
ingredientsmay be an issue for you.
If so check the link.
A Great Name None-the-less
So, Café Medici has little or nothing to
do with the House of Medici.
But it is an interesting and compelling
name for coffee.
The Medici gave the Catholic Church
these popes:
Pope Leo X (1513–1521)
Pope Clement VII (1523–1534)
Pope Pius IV (1559–1565)
Pope Leo XI (1605)
They also provided two queens of
France, Catherine de’ Medici (1547–
1559) and Marie de’ Medici (1600–
1610).
They were the Dukes of Florence and
ruled Tuscany.
They were wealthy bankers and for a
time the wealthiest family in Europe.
They were in the textile trade. It is not
recorded that they were coffee
drinkers although they lived during the
time when Turkish coffee became
popular around the Caribbean.
Why Organic Coffee, Milk and
Orange Peel?
The point of going organic is to avoid
impurities in your food and to help the
environment as well.
But what is the point of drinking
organic coffee if you do not adopt an
organic approach to the rest of what
you eat and drink?
Like organic coffee, other organic
foods are certified by the United
States Department of Agriculture, the
USDA.
If you are in doubt about where to find
organic ingredients follow the links on
this page.
If you are in doubt about what
constitutes an organic food or drink
read the excerpt from the USDA web
site.
Check the organic ingredients article
for a few sources of organic
ingredients if you cannot find what you
want at your local market.
We will be adding to this list as we find
out more about where to find organic
ingredients for foods to go with the
organic coffee antioxidants that make
organic coffee so healthy.