This is from The Amateur Gourmet. We find this hysterical because being fellow coffee snobs, we have encountered this same horror. Put the milk in BEFORE the espresso, Fools! ... The man didn't know what he was doing. I was at a Brooklyn coffee shop whose name is synonymous with donkey and I ordered an iced latte. The man (I'd call him a barista, but he clearly wasn't) took a glass and filled it with ice. And then--this was the crucial error--he pulled two watery flavorless shots of espresso which he poured on top of the ice. The ice melted a lot. Then he topped the whole thing with a splash of milk. It was insipid... Read More...