"Frappé lifts moods, stimulates conversation, announces your connection to a lifestyle unique to Greece, and connects you to it when you’re away. It is nothing less than a modern Greek elixir."

Vivian Constantinopoulos & Daniel Young,
authors of FRAPPE NATION



Read what the press say about Frappe Nation

  

read it

Frappé Nation: Ora Gia Kafe (Time for Coffee) is an illustrated travelogue of the Hellenic café landscape, starting in Athens and crisscrossing the cities and islands of Greece, from Corfu to Mykonos, Thessaloniki to Chania, Rhodes to Santorini. Yet it is much more than just a coffee-table book about coffee: Authors Vivian Constantinopoulos and Daniel Young investigate the bond between modern Greeks and their national drink. This special relationship is rooted in an ancestral thirst for public dialogue and interaction, hence the chapter devoted to “The Ancient Art of Greek Conversation.” Other chapters indicate the scope of Vivian and Daniel’s cultural exploration:

– The Frappe Moment
– The Modern Greek Elixir
– The Story of Greek Coffee and Coffee in Greece
– The Discovery of Nescafe Frappe
– The Science of Frappe Foam
– How to make a frappe
– The Frappe Diaspora

Published by Editions Potamos in a single, hardcover, 192-page, bilingual English-Greek edition with over 250 color photos.

frappenation.com price: €27 (about $40)

wear it

Frappé Nation commissioned the Welsh designer Jonathan Ball of pokedstudio to reimagine the frothy frappé glass as a pop art creation for its official T-shirt design. Ball created the distinctive design for the men's and women's T-shirts and women's tank tops using vector graphics.The 2008 line of women's shirts are screen-printed on American Apparel® tees and tanks.

For frappé nation T-shirts, go to the online store.

live it

Some look at a glass of frappé and see only a sensationally frothy mixture of coffee, sugar, water, and ice. The citizens of Frappé Nation see a symbol of idyllic summers in Greece. To view and share photos of the frappé way of life, join our group at flickr.com.