"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
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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.
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