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How It Used To Be

Marye Audet — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:17:04 +0000

Life was simpler when I was growing up in the 60’s. The coffee pot made cool noise on the stove and it was fun to watch the color of the coffee turn from clear to dark, rich brown in the clear knob on the top of the cover.

Since we did not have things like dvds and video games, watching coffee perk was fascinating.And then, Mom would pour the coffee into a cup, stir in some evaporated milk from a can, some sugar….take a sip…. and… Oh GLORY! She would head off to do something and leave the coffee on the counter.

It was a matter of time. I would head up to make my bed or whatever and thirty minutes later, when I came back into the kitchen the coffee would be room temperature and ready to drink as far as I was concerned.

Never enough to make a noticeable difference in the level of the rapidly chilling brew, but enough to know that I preferred my mom’s cold coffee to my dad’s martini olives hands down.

As I was cleaning the pantry the other day I came across the coffee pot. No cords. No gadgets. No touch-pad. Just the brutal honesty of stainless steel “guts” and smooth exterior…and of course, the clear knob on top.

Later I am going to make some 1960’s style coffee. I am going to listen to the sound of the coffee pot and smell the aroma as it begins to waft through my kitchen. I am going to get my mom’s old, Stuckey’s Coffee Club mug (these things are selling for like 100.00 each on ebay!) and pour some coffee. It may be that I find that my tastes have changed and matured…..and then again it may taste just as good as it used to.

So..what are the memories that you have associated with coffee?

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Antique Coffee Sets

Marye Audet — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:00:54 +0000

While it is admittedly hard to find really cool modern coffee sets you can find some beautiful ones at the antique stores, locally and online. I want to start doing a monthly roundup of neat vintage tea, chocolate, and coffee sets I find so thought today was an excellent day to begin.

I am not advertising any of these, nor am I getting revenue from the sellers, these are just cool sets that I came across while looking around this morning. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

This is a seafoam green Czech coffee set from about 1930-1935. It has gold trim.The transfer scene is called Love Story, and I can imagine sipping a hot cup of my chocolate irish cream flavored coffee while I nibble delicately on a pistachio white chocolate biscotti. I love it! Available at eFine Antiques

eBay is always a good source for antique. This is Limoges in the Wedding Ring pattern from the 1800s.

Again from eBay .

This handpainted American Beauty pattern coffee and chocolate pot is not dated on the page but it is beautiful!

The Lefton Heritage Brown Coffee pot is one of my favorites because of the intricacy of the design and the beautiful color. It is found at Lefton Collectibles

Image:Chaplins

I fell instantly in love with this Yellow Phlox early Art Deco Coffee Pot!

image:The Artchive

This is a flow blue piece. I was going to tell you how much I love flow blue but then I realized that most of you have figured out that I love nearly all antiques.

And there you have it. A gorgeous collection of coffee pots from times past. If you have a sudden urge to buy me any of them do feel free..

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