Order the lobster soup: dumplings served in a pungent, beet-red vegetable broth, steamed before your eyes in a glass contraption resembling a coffeepot.

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Like nearly every work in this show, Manet's real interest was the brush mark of the trousers, tablecloth, lemon zest, vase, coffeepot and smudgy cat.

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Their first inhaler was clunky, the size of a coffeepot.

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