Mercantile / The Coffee Counter
The household’s morning
The Coffee Counter The whole of the morning in one place: the machines and the manual brewers, the grinders, and the beans. Every woman in the house takes her coffee a different way, and the counter holds all of it, from Blanche’s pour-over to Luisa’s moka to the cold drip that is entirely Cleo’s.
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