/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>8280919
>>8280915
And that's it for me.

Vitamin fortified kids' biscuits, Nutella in jars that can later be used as drinking glasses and barley "coffee" for kids.
Fun fact: because coffee is such a prevalent part of culture in my part of Italy, many Italian converts to Mormonism still go to cafés for the social aspects of our coffee culture but drink barley coffee instead.

Dear me. Had I known mentioning latte macchiato and explaining what it is would have caused such butthurt, I never would have.

>>7878595
Not him, but I am. It's not true. latte macchiato is a morning drink, is all, and rarely to never ordered after breakfast.
What is often served to kids, however (and one of the most popular marks is literally called the Italian word for "kid") is barley latte macchiato. Grains of barley are dark roasted and ground and brewed the same way as espresso is, the resulting brew poured over milk froth as I described elsewhere ITT with regular coffee.
Barley and milk was a staple of my childhood as it was for many other kids, as well. Many Italians enjoy it from time to time well into adulthood or even old age, often for nostalgia, the same way American adults might enjoy PB&J from time to time.

>>4481460
>nona
What country are you from? Some people might believe you're Italian but "nona" is not an Italian word. Are you an ItaloAmerican?
The only language I know that has a similar word is Indo/Malay, where it means something akin to "auntie" (IE a female friend of one's parents who is not a blood relative) and that's only in some dialectical pronunciations, at that.

>>4481468
Yes and no. It's generally more a southern thing than anywhere else, particular in and around Naples. Kids are given 'orzo bimbo,' dark-roasted barley which is then ground into ground-coffee-like consistency and brewed as one would brew coffee. This is to make them not feel left out as mum has coffee for herself and guests.
About kids not feeling left out: kids in other countries tend to be given the generally fuck off while mum goes off to do her thing, if only for a few hours. The Italian mother, however, is hawkeyed and vigilant, keeping watch over her child, her only reason to live, really, like white on rice. Because of this over-involvement, many kids Italy tend to be "mammoni," or "mummy's boys" (even if their girls). Orzo bimo is a way for Italian mothers to coddle their children even more. Doing this, however, will most certainly yield "bamboccioni" or "man-children." This is why Italy has the lowest birth-rate in Europe: cuz Italian mothers coddle their kids for-fucking-ever, then you have 40-something virgin single men living with mum. Then mummy, in her infinite wisdom, still can't figure out why oh why she has no grandkids.

Goddamn, my country's culture sucks hard.
Anyway: pic related. It's orzo bimbo.

>>4383366
Not so much. It can be at first... and there's always the risk you'll do it incorrectly and it will explode (yes; this happens). My sister destroyed two stove hoods when I was a kid because she's a tard. Not literally, of course, just that she's hot and thinking is not what hot girls are supposed to do.
Anyway, I've been making coffee/other stuff this way since I was seven years old or so. I'd prepare the pot for my parents and they had a separate, smaller pot for me so that I could have "coffee" with them, too, even though I've always liked the taste of coffee. They thought it was bad for kids, so no coffee until I was like nine or ten.
Pic related: it's what I brewed in the smaller pot.
Basically, if a seven-year-old can do it, so can you.