Umberto Eco Quotes

I like my coffee light.

Espresso, made by steam expressing finely ground coffee, is rich in flavor and aroma and chlorogenic acids, but not very concentrated at all in caffeine.

I like really hot coffee, not too strong.

Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

I bought an espresso maker and coffee maker and make them myself every day.

I love coffee. It's one of my favorite things in the world, and I love tasting different coffees.

Every good day starts off with a cappuccino, and there's no place better to enjoy some frothy caffeine than at the Bulgari Hotel.

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

The coffee in Araku is the best I have had so far.

If the coffee can taste so good with nothing else in it, then that's a good cup of coffee.

I take my coffee like I take my women... strong... black... and proud.

The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.

I hate decaffeinated coffee. It's useless brown water.

You're not really drinking coffee unless you drink it black, don't you think? Oh, no? You like to monkey with it?

And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.

American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an American percolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes, served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like pure spring water, and afterwards causes severe palpitations, because one cup contains more caffeine than four espressos.

Coffee in Italy and some places in Europe is great, but there's just something about Australian coffee.

I drink coffee every day, either espresso or cortado, which is two shots espresso and steamed milk.

I need a coffee to go with my coffee.

The first requisite for a good cup of coffee in the morning is to get your wife out of bed.

In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.

Coffee in Brazil is always made fresh and, except at breakfast time, drunk jet black from demitasses first filled almost to the brim with the characteristic moist, soft coffee sugar of the country, which melts five times as fast as our hard granulated. For breakfast larger cups are used, and they're more than half filled with cream. This cafe con leite doesn't re-quire so much sugar as cafe preto-black coffee.

Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity. To women, it's on the same domestic entry level as putting the spring back into the toilet-tissue holder or taking a chicken out of the freezer to thaw.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.