Ah, the daily cup of coffee.  I'm one of those disgusting people who wakes up readily and cheerfully without the intervention of caffeine, but having watched friends, college roommates, some family members and my spouse stumble around only semi-coherent before their morning cup, I know how important it is for most other people.

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Among my cookbook stash are a number of those little cooking pamphlets put out by companies as marketing ploys to get women to buy and use their products.  One of them is Sealtest Kitchen Recipes -- World's Fair Edition.  This was the New York World's Fair of 1939, and the theme was science and how it would impact the life of the average man.

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