History 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 impoverished.

Or, at least, that’s what many specialty coffee companies would like you to believe. The truth is a lot less rosy.

In this final episode of A History of Coffee, Jonathan and James explore where the specialty coffee movement came from, whether it will succeed in arresting coffee’s race-to-the-bottom, and look into the future to understand what might be the future of coffee.

A History of Coffee is a collaboration between James Harper of the Filter Stories - Coffee Documentaries podcast and Jonathan Morris, Professor of History and author of ‘Coffee: A Global History’.

Visit Jonathan’s Instagram (https://link.filterstories.org/37eMS3F) and Twitter (https://link.filterstories.org/3jNr9ou)
& James’ Filter Stories Instagram (https://link.filterstories.org/2Mlkk0O) and Twitter (https://link.filterstories.org/3baTsJk)

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Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/3jY42aJ
Castbox: https://link.filterstories.org/38sXdcH

Read Jonathan’s book, ‘Coffee: A Global History’ here: https://amzn.to/3dihAfU
Listen to the bonus episode on the ‘A History of Coffee’ podcast channel: https://link.filterstories.org/2NArChO

Music featured in this episode:
La Traviata, Brindisi (Verdi) by MIT Symphony Orchestra: https://link.filterstories.org/3eGUsIf
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly by Ann Alee: https://link.filterstories.org/2SKlaY6

 

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