None of this has been helped by coffee shops like Starbucks serving drinks called macchiatos which are notably different from a traditional Italian macchiato. The cortado is an exemplar of how ...

What makes the cortado a cortado and not a piccolo, affogato, or macchiato, however, is that it's made with equal parts milk ...

and order a macchiato, it’s going to be significantly smaller that what Dunkin’ and Starbucks usually serve. Here’s the funny part: The Starbucks version is still huge for a cortado ...