最初接触到卡布奇诺咖啡,是在一九七O年代初,我在耶鲁大学读书的时候。那时城里咖啡馆不少,都是希腊人开的,所谓coffee house,很像香港的茶餐厅,是一般人吃早餐、吃汉堡包,甚至喝咖啡聊天的地方。那咖啡实在不怎么样,淡而无味,却又苦涩难喝,真不知是用什么希腊秘方泡制出来的。我有一个同学,是新英格兰世家出身,从小就经常跟父母到意大利度假,颇有点亨利·詹姆斯笔下的洋派 The first contact with cappuccino was in the early 1970s when I was studying at Yale University. At that time, many of the city’s cafes, are open to the Greeks, the so-called coffee house, much like Hong Kong’s cafe, is the average person eating breakfast, eating hamburgers, or even chatting with coffee. That coffee is not very good, light and tasteless, but bitter hard to drink, I really do not know what is brewing with the secret recipe of Greece. I have a classmate, is a New England family background, I often went to Italy with her parents on vacation, quite a bit of Henry James’s foreign school