The perfect cup of coffee -- at home

By MATT DEGEN
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You love coffee. There's just no other way of saying it. Your feelings toward the liquid indulgence go beyond mere appreciation for it as a morning or afternoon pick-me-up: This borders on obsession.

You get your daily fix -- or two or three -- at one of the myriad coffeehouses that dot the land. But whenever you brew, it just doesn't taste the same as what you get at a coffeehouse. In fact, it's quite inferior.

So how do you make the perfect cup of coffee at home?

We posed the question to a man who knows: Martin Diedrich.

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