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dessert that drowns ice cream in espresso and calls it a mercy killing.
means An Italian dessert in which a scoop of vanilla gelato or ice cream is doused with a shot of hot espresso.
from From Italian affogato, literally 'drowned' — the past participle of affogare, 'to drown' or 'to suffocate.' That verb traces back through Vulgar Latin to a sense of choking or smothering (the same root family touches Latin fauces, 'throat'). So the name is wonderfully literal: the gelato is the drowned thing, and the espresso is the flood that does it in.
- name meaning
- Italian for drowned, named after the gelato's fate
- two ingredients
- Hot espresso, cold gelato, zero pretense
- hot meets cold
- Eaten fast before it becomes confused soup
- dessert or drink
- Italians refuse to settle the argument
- booze upgrade
- A shot of amaretto turns it dangerous
for instance
affogato at florian — venice's caffè florian has served this espresso-gelato dish since 1720
affogato al pistacchio — pistachio affogato popularized in sicily, particularly in bronte