Espesso: Turning coffee world upside down?

BY JANET RAUSA FULLER
Staff Reporter
Chicago Sun-Times

Espresso is meant to be sipped. Espesso, however, requires a spoon.

Spanish uber-chef Ferran Adria, considered the world's most innovative chef, has come up with coffee you can eat, and it's making its American debut today in Chicago.

Espesso -- a play on the Italian word "spesso," meaning thick -- is essentially "taking coffee and solidifying it," said Joerg Oberschmied, vice president of operations for Lavazza, the 111-year-old Italian coffee company that is offering Adria's coffee creation.

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