There are so many ways to look at America's Favorite Drug® that we decoded the intricacies for the enlightenment of amateur and professional coffee snobs. My design collaborator David Hennessy and I chatted exhaustively about it, finally carving out this composition. 

Espresso began as a way to brew individual coffee on-demand...not necessarily to create expensive and highfalutin coffee drinks.But of course, that's where it led, so we cleared up the differences between a Latte, Cappuccino and Flat White.

We also took stock of the most popular/effective/cosmopolitan methods of brewing coffee from Turkish to Vietnamese to Irish. I have recently become enamored with the AeroPress, a sort of manual espresso-French Press hybrid that is particularly useful on camping trips, and when your boyfriend is out of town.