Wake up and smell the gourmet coffee

clipped from www.7days.ae There used to be a time when sipping at a cappuccino was something this side of exotic; the kind of activity you would only do when on vacation in some far-flung European city. Words like 'latte', 'ristretto', 'skinny, wet, double shot' and a whole host of other coffee catchphrases meant next to nothing. But now, you'll be hard pressed to get through a single day without having some kind of java-related exchange, using the terms that have become part of popular culture vernacular. But coffee, like wine, water and more recently, chocolate, has been undergoing something of an upwards sophistication curve, creating 'coffee snobs', so to speak who only drink specific brews, blends and easily look down on chain concoctions.