The Best Coffee Break Is an Affogato. (Sounds good)
Made with cold gelato and warm espresso, this treat merges two sublime pleasures in one glass.
'In 1960, when John Steinbeck hit the road for the cross-country adventure that would become “Travels With Charley,” he wrote that he often stopped for coffee, not because he wanted it “but for a rest and a change from the unrolling highway.” I, too, turn to coffee on long stretches of boring road, but for me, one addition is essential: vanilla soft serve, for a concoction I like to call an affogato Americano. Go to any fast-food restaurant that serves ice cream and coffee (most do), order both and mix. Eat this in a parked car before the ice cream melts and the coffee cools, as I did recently on Interstate 81 heading south. The rewards are twofold: The coffee gives you energy, and the ice cream makes you happy.
But nothing beats a properly made affogato, which is to say some supercold gelato with a shot or two of hot espresso. The magic of an affogato is that even a bad one can be very good, but a very good one can change your life.
Affogato al caffè, or gelato drowned in coffee, is “one of Italy’s most delectable modern dishes,” Anna Del Conte writes in her authoritative book “Gastronomy of Italy.” Though the affogato’s origins are largely unknown, the fashion of drinking wine with snow or ice took off in 16th-century Italy. We can find evidence of modern gelato, made with milk, a century later. Single-shot espresso didn’t come into the picture until the turn of the 20th century, when the Milanese inventor Luigi Bezzera patented a machine that forced, or expressed, hot steam through ground coffee beans. How the ice cream and coffee coalesced into the affogato remains a mystery.'>>>
Something 'romantic' about this article???
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/11/magazine/affogato-recipe.html
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but can dream.
Haven't visited friends in DC suburb for more than 1 year, so no decent pasta or any such. 
