It was lunch hour and after a decently long meeting, I was looking forward to have a sumptuous lunch. As i was driving through the roads of chennai, I realised that I was near Mylapore, and the obvious choice of eatery was the famous Karpagambal mess.
So, off I went navigating the always-oh-so-crowded mada street until I reached the destination. As I sat there, waiting for my food to arrive, I happened to notice the price list that was put up on the wall. I started going through each item in that list. I stopped at the third one which read "Degree Kaapi" .
I have heard the term quite a number of times (thanks to my Grandma) , but never really ventured to find more about it. Sitting here , waiting for food and nothing better to do, I did a search for "Degree coffee" on my mobile. What I found was really interesting which i will share in a moment.
In this age of "Coffee Days", "Barista", "Java City", I think its a good idea to know a bit about Coffee or Kaapi.
So, I had this question "Why is it called Degree Kaapi". Came across a few explanations .
1) Coffee prepared with "degree" milk (milk of good quality as measured by a lactometer) was called degree coffee
2) when coffee is decocted for the first time, it is called as the first degree or simply as the "Degree Coffee".
My thoughts and reading was interrupted by the arrival of my food :-)
There is a whole lot of detail that is available @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_filter_coffee.
Kaapi enjoy maadi
Cheers
K
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