Written by RT Cunningham on November 30, 2008 – 5:23 pm
The small picture on the left depicts a very simple kind of coffee table. You can tell that it's made of some cheap wood and that it's not very decorative at all. Coffee tables come in all shapes and sizes, usually made of some kind of wood, but not so much in recent years.
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Written by RT Cunningham on October 25, 2008 – 11:10 am
After watching the employees at one of the Starbucks locations in Phoenix, Arizona, my wife decided to do an experiment to see if she could make coffee that tasted as good as their coffee. More specifically, she wanted to reproduce the taste of their lattes.
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Written by RT Cunningham on October 22, 2008 – 3:51 am
It may not be the best automatic drip coffee maker available, but the Mr. Coffee coffee maker was the first brand to hit the market in 1972. In business, you either have to be the first or the best if you want to have guaranteed success. Okay, so you can get away with being second best and still succeed, but it's not guaranteed.
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Written by RT Cunningham on October 21, 2008 – 11:14 pm
There are so many ways to make iced tea, it's probably impossible to write about all of them. I'm going to try to cover the ways that I've done it, my mother and siblings have done it and the way I've seen other people do it. I'll start with the picture you see on the left.
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Written by RT Cunningham on October 14, 2008 – 8:40 pm
I shouldn't really say "old-fashioned", but I couldn't think of another way to describe coffee makers that most people don't use anymore. The Pyrex coffee percolator pictured is the exact style of coffee pot that my mother and older sisters used when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s.
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