Rathod might have a taste for coffee but isn't prepared to pay for a serving in a new style coffee shop.

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Coffee is prepared 1700s-style: on the open fire in small copper jugs with long handles.

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Bush finally ended up publishing that tome, a generously-proportioned coffee-table book called The King of Style, last month.

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The truly coffee-mad experiment with Dr. Frankenstein--style vacuum pots, which infuse the grinds with steam siphoned between two glass globes.

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The brewing style differs from a traditional Turkish three-time boil as the coffee gets removed from the stove when the first chocolatey foam pops to the surface.

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With a multi-touch display - no keyboard or mouse here -- housed in what looks in size and shape like a chic coffee table, the company hope that the table-style computer will change the face of computing at the office and in the home over the next decade.

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Basically the chefs were interviewed documentary style, filmed and taped, but the result was converted into these two coffee table editions rather than a film, and in most cases, the chef goes from home to restaurant to, in some cases, a workout session, in order to fully capture what makes them and their dishes tick.

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The Parisian-style cafe circuit, backed by an intriguing literary history, is paradise for bookish types and coffee lovers, and the edgy local fashion scene seduces design-minded travellers.

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