Sweet Maria's Coffee Podcast
1) Migoti, Burundi: A conversation with Dan Brose
On my visit to Burundi this year, I sat with Dan Brose of Migoti Coffee. Dan and his partner Poncien built this station some years ago, and it all didn’t go exactly as planned. With some bumps along t...Show More
2) Tanzania - A Morning in Moshi
This recording is a 28 minute unedited recording of a morning in Moshi, Tanzania May 25 2023. It’s the kind of “waking up” recordings I often do when traveling, both as personal note taking, but somet...Show More
3) Tourism-Travel-Coffee (Part 2)
This is the second part of of a podcast recording, focusing on tourism coffee and coffee marketing. I read from the article Tourism: Globalization and the Commodification of Culture about Disneyficati...Show More
4) Tourism-Travel-Coffee (Part 1)
I've been a little obsessed lately with reading about tourism and travel narritives, and seeing how these line up with my work as a coffee buyer. What I find is that ideas that interest me in coffee a...Show More
5) Kenya Coffee Cupping
It’s been nearly 4 years since visiting Kenya, and I am excited to be back. When I travel for coffee I tend to make audio recordings over morning coffee, and sometimes I edit these into podcasts later...Show More
6) Ethiopia 5 - Shakiso - Guji Coffee & Very Loud Prayers
It’s Sunday morning in Shakiso town but it’s not peaceful and quiet by any definition. I am talking about coffee in the area, but I’m competing against the decibels of the Orthodox church and their lo...Show More
7) Ethiopia 4 - Yirga Alem - Conflict - Culture
The Aregash Lodge in Yirg Alem is an oasis! I always look forward to staying here on the way to the southern coffee growing areas of Yirga Cheffe, Kochore, Gedeb, and Shakiso. It’s owned by Gregorg an...Show More
8) Ethiopia 3 - Coffee, Photography, Power
I really was on the fence about uploading this episode. One the one hand, this is stuff I have already said, about photography and coffee travel, about marketing, about representation. It feels like I...Show More
9) Ethiopia 2 - Jimma, Coffee Travel and Coffee Marketing
I am in the larger town of Jimma, I think the euphoria of returning to the dirt roads of Ethiopia wore off a bit. It was probably all the dust. Feeling a bit drained, but still happy to be back in Eth...Show More
10) Ethiopia 1 - Agaro: The Losing Battle of Coops vs. Private Exporters
I am in Agaro town in the Western coffee region near Jimma and Limmu. It feels like I am 70% in Ethiopia and 30% still back in Oakland. Despite jet lag, I talk about what I have learned so far about t...Show More