Starbucks' Vacuum Coffee Pot

PRODUCT An automatic vacuum coffee pot, due out this week, that Starbucks is marketing as the "pre-eminent coffee experience"

HOW IT STARTED Europeans have been brewing coffee in vacuum pots for 100 years. Americans have been too lazy

JUDGMENT CALL Once you get the hang of it, it does make a superb cup of coffee. But for $169, it had better

Most of us don't brush our teeth, have sex or say a kind word about a fellow human as many times a day as we drink a cup of coffee. Small wonder, then, that so many people are...

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