“Our coffee machine may not be a fancy chrome espresso one that looks fabulous, but it does make a perfect Americano with the kind of cream on top that you don’t get from cafetiere coffee. But I couldn’t live with the waste from the coffee pods we were throwing away each week, so sadly it lay dormant and at risk of expulsion from our kitchen. That is, until a friend told me we could buy reusable pods! Now, I buy nice coffee, fill them up, and stick them in the machine. One of those rare perfect solutions.”