A History of Coffee Podcast
1) 4) Just Friends? America's love affair with coffee
America is coffee-obsessed. From Central Perk’s red couch being the centre of major plot twists in Friends to the fact the average American drank more than two cups a day.And the conventional explanat...Show More
2) 3) Espresso Lungo: The slow road to Italy's democratic espresso culture
One morning back in the ‘80s, Howard Schultz walks out of his Milan hotel, stumbles into an espresso bar, and fundamentally changes coffee history. He discovered (and then popularises) the iconic, tim...Show More
3) 2) A Lasting Stain: Haiti, Colonialism and Coffee
Haiti was once the biggest, most profitable coffee growing region in the world. But today Haiti is one of the world’s poorest nations where you can’t get a bag of Haitian beans delivered to Berlin in ...Show More
4) 1) It's Just Coffee? How coffee houses changed the world
A coffee shop is a lot more than just a place to drink coffee. The seats and sofas encourage you to invite a friend, and chat.And chatting is powerful: ideas that emerge from these caffeine-fuelled co...Show More
5) Introducing: Series Two of A History of Coffee
We're back with more stories about the tiny psychoactive seed that changed the world and continues to shape our lives today.In Series Two, we reveal how the invention of the coffee shop revolutionised...Show More
6) BONUS: Coffee's Ticking Time Bomb
We have an exciting announcement....AND, a story about Sri Lanka and coffee history we think you're really going to like. Sri Lankan coffee has delicious notes of chocolate and caramel. But it’s basic...Show More
7) BONUS: A History of Tea
Coffee has a fascinating history stretching back hundreds of years. But tea takes it to the next level, stretching back thousands.And it too was colonised by Europeans with huge repercussions that we ...Show More
8) BONUS: Decolonising Coffee History
Each sip of coffee we drink is steeped in dark colonial past. The reason we can enjoy it every morning is because it's relatively cheap, and many people suffered under European colonisers to create sy...Show More
9) BONUS: Stimulating stories or fantastic flavours: what sells coffee?
We are hard at work on the bonus episode about decolonising coffee history.But...in the meantime, here's an episode from a sister podcast we think you'll enjoy.You can listen to more episodes from Adv...Show More
10) 6) The Future of Coffee?
Do you grind your beans fresh before brewing your coffee? If so, you are helping overturn a race-to–the-bottom with deep roots in colonial extraction that today is leaving millions of coffee farmers i...Show More