December 21, 2025

By Arthur H. Gunther III

thecolumnrule.com

Holiday time, no matter the decade, offers habits and traditions put away for the year in bins, attics, basements, closets. They are again made special by pulling them out, re-enacting on the right occasion.

So it is with the Farberware 8-cup coffee pot, Model #138, assembled a long time ago in the Bronx, N.Y. It is no longer created in that borough, itself not that far from the famous early 1900s John Arbuckle coffee roasting plant, the delicious aroma of which you could not escape along the East River off Brooklyn.

The Farberware pot sits in utter peace most of the year, but if there are birthday or holiday guests, it leaves the cupboard, its chrome polished, 8 cups of cold water, 9 teaspoons of coffee added and plugged in.

Farberware Pot then shows off. Within half a minute, it begins to perk, singing the fresh java tune, pulsating to it, hot water brew rising to the glass bubble at the top as if to tell you, “See I can still do the job.” Not long after, there is coffee. Fresh. Hot. Made in an indestructible percolator.

The brewing brings forth such aroma that even if you don’t like coffee, its fragrance reminds you of home as a kid, or grandma’s house or the holiday season we are now in.

Farberware Pot wishes you the best for this time of year. So do I.

The writer is a retired newspaperman (ahgunther@yahoo.com)

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