A History of Coffee

A History of Coffee

Download on the App Store

A History of Coffee episodes

  • Guatemala’s Inconvenient Truth, Part 2: Who does specialty serve?

    Specialty coffee changes the story for the indigenous people of Guatemala. Coffee as a tool of oppression finally offers hope....and then something a bit more complicated.

     

    This episode explores the tension between the values of the Mayan communities who grow coffee, and the values that drive the specialty coffee movement.

     

    Many of the signals we typically look for in our coffees - super-specialty flavours, Fairtrade certification, “5th generation family farm” - might actually exclude coffee grown by indigenous Guatemalans. 

     

    This episode might change what kind of Guatemalan coffee you buy. 

     

    Please spread the word about A History of Coffee!

     

    Follow us on Instagram - James (@filterstoriespodcast)  and Jonathan (@coffeehistoryjm) - and tag us in an Instagram story. 

     

    Write a review on Apple Podcasts

     

    Leave a 5 star rating on Spotify

     

     

    This free educational content for the coffee community was made possible by Mahlkönig, manufacturers of world-leading coffee grinders for 100 years for your home and cafe. 

     

     

    Read Jonathan’s book, Coffee: A Global History

     

    Support James’ work directly by buying him a coffee at Ko-fi.com/FilterStories

     

    Read James’ article on Dieseldorf, the famous German plantation owner, in Standart 

     

    Pick up a copy of Prof. Ted Fischer’s excellent book Making Better Coffee: How Maya Farmers and Third Wave Taste Makers Create Value

     

    Follow Juan Jose on LinkedIn to keep up with his PhD on coffee farming in Jacaltenango exploring how ecology, generational memory and ritual all shape how Jacalteco farmers tend the land. 

     

     


    Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

    Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

    "Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.

    Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

    Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

    "Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.
    29 min
  • Guatemala’s Inconvenient Truth, Part 1: Whose land is it anyway?

    When you buy a bag of coffee labelled fifth-generation family farm, it feels like a good choice. 

     

    But in Guatemala, that label might actually be a signal for a more uncomfortable truth.

     

    This episode explores how land has been understood, used, and eventually fought over in Guatemala for centuries between indigenous people, Europeans and those in-between.

     

    It’s a story of what happened immediately after Guatemala won independence from Spain. This pivotal period of history gets less attention in the history books, but the suffering of the indigenous people of Guatemala gets arguably even worse.

     

    Fair warning: it's a dark story, and it will make you think twice about what you're really choosing when you pick up a bag of coffee from Central America.

     

     

    Please spread the word about A History of Coffee!

     

    Follow us on Instagram - James (@filterstoriespodcast)  and Jonathan (@coffeehistoryjm) - and tag us in an Instagram story. 

     

    Write a review on Apple Podcasts

     

    Leave a 5 star rating on Spotify

     

     

    This free educational content for the coffee community was made possible by Mahlkönig, manufacturers of world-leading coffee grinders for 100 years for your home and cafe. 

     

     

    Read Jonathan’s book, Coffee: A Global History

     

    Support James’ work directly by buying him a coffee at Ko-fi.com/FilterStories

     

    Read James’ article on Dieseldorf, the famous German plantation owner, in Standart 

     

    Pick up a copy of Prof. Ted Fischer’s excellent book Making Better Coffee: How Maya Farmers and Third Wave Taste Makers Create Value

     

    Follow Juan Jose on LinkedIn to keep up with his PhD on coffee farming in Jacaltenango exploring how ecology, generational memory and ritual all shape how Jacalteco farmers tend the land. 

     


    Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

    Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

    "Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.

    Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

    Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

    "Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.
    44 min
  • Surrogates: Anything but the coffee

    What happens when coffee disappears?

     

    This is not a thought experiment! It’s happened many times in history: War, blockades, tariffs, ideology, health panics, sanctions, supply shocks. 

     

    When coffee is not around, people still need something warm, comforting, and familiar. And throughout history, people have reached for coffee surrogates: roasted plants and grains engineered to look like coffee…but do they actually taste like coffee? 

     

    In this episode, Jonathan and James time-travel by taste testing a truly alarming number of coffee substitutes. 

     

    Spoiler: you will hear a lot of spitting! 

     

    Which leads to the bigger question: can anything actually replace coffee—or will we always come crawling back?

     

     

    Please spread the word about A History of Coffee!

     

    Follow us on Instagram - James (@filterstoriespodcast)  and Jonathan (@coffeehistoryjm) - and tag us in an Instagram story. 

     

    Write a review on Apple Podcasts

     

    Leave a 5 star rating on Spotify

     

     

    This free educational content for the coffee community was made possible by Mahlkönig, manufacturers of world-leading coffee grinders for 100 years for your home and cafe. 

     

     

    Read Jonathan’s book, ‘Coffee: A Global History’

     

    Support James’ work directly by buying him a coffee at Ko-fi.com/FilterStories

     

    Read James’ article on the history of decaf technology in Standart

     

    See Colin Smith’s amazing coffee museum at Smith’s Coffee in Hemel Hempstead, UK

     

    Get nerdy about the intersection of AI and the occult on Karin’s Subtack, Mercurial Minutes

     

     

    Do your own surrogate taste test!

     

    Postum

    Atomo

    Orzo

    Fig

    Dandelion root

    Dateseed

    Acorn

    Chickpea

    Chicory Root

    Camp Coffee

     


    Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

    Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

    "Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.

    Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

    Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

    "Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.
    47 min
  • Mother Coffee: The history and heritage of Ethiopia’s wild coffee forests

    Most coffee is grown on vast plantations using machines, pesticides and fertilisers. 

     

    But in Ethiopia, coffee grows wild in humid forests surrounded by birds. 

     

    And that wild coffee matters more than most of us realise. It is the genetic ‘library’ we can turn to find new varieties to help us keep coffee thriving in the face of climate change. 

     

    But the communities who live alongside them and have safeguarded this genetic treasure often don’t earn enough from coffee to make preservation the obvious economic choice.

     

    Could a great story be the answer to earn higher premiums for these communities? Could that story be that all the coffee we drink today can actually be traced back to a single “mother tree” in Ethiopia? 

     

    This episode is about the history of coffee in Ethiopia, how far back the evidence goes, what counts as evidence, and what we should celebrate (and pay for) when we buy “wild” Ethiopian coffee today.

     

     

    Please spread the word about A History of Coffee!

     

    Follow us on Instagram - James (@filterstoriespodcast)  and Jonathan (@coffeehistoryjm) - and tag us in an Instagram story. 

     

    Write a review on Apple Podcasts 

     

    Leave a 5 star rating on Spotify

     

     

    This free educational content for the coffee community was made possible by Mahlkönig, manufacturers of world-leading coffee grinders for 100 years for your home and cafe. 

     

    Read Jonathan’s book, ‘Coffee: A Global History’ 

     

    Support James’ work directly by buying him a coffee at Ko-fi.com/FilterStories

     

    Discover how James makes these Filter Stories episodes by subscribing to his Substack newsletter

     

    Enjoy James’ Standart article about Avicenna and the earliest (supposed) written reference to coffee

     

    Read the scientific paper pinpointing where wild coffee forests are in Ethiopia 

     

    Follow Solomon Tselele's work through his Facebook page

     

    Learn more about the Ethiopian coffee ceremony on the Adventures in Coffee podcast

     

    Series 3 of A History of Coffee is a collaboration between documentary maker James Harper of the Filter Stories coffee podcast and Jonathan Morris, Professor of History and author of ‘Coffee: A Global History’. 

     

    Ethiopian forest sounds curtesy of George Vlad. Hear more nature sounds here.

     


    Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

    Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

    "Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.

    Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

    Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

    "Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.
    49 min
  • We Built This City…On Coffee: Hamburg and the making of Europe’s coffee trade

    On a long walk through Hamburg, somewhere between the fish markets and giant cranes, you might stumble a giant bronze coffee bean looks like its crash landed from space. 

     

    But this giant coffee bean represents a staggering fact: one in every three cups of coffee drunk in Europe has passed through Hamburg. 

     

    In the first half of this episode, we explore the many profound ways coffee shaped one of Europe’s most important cities. 

     

    But then the story flips because, once coffee changed Hamburg, Hamburg began to change coffee.

     

    Series 3 of A History of Coffee is a collaboration between documentary maker James Harper of the Filter Stories coffee podcast and Jonathan Morris, Professor of History and author of ‘Coffee: A Global History’. 

     

     

    Please spread the word about A History of Coffee!

     

    Follow us on Instagram - James (@filterstoriespodcast)  and Jonathan (@coffeehistoryjm) - and tag us in an Instagram story. 

     

    Write a review on Apple Podcasts 

     

    Leave a 5 star rating on Spotify

     

    This free educational content for the coffee community was made possible by Mahlkönig, manufacturers of world-leading coffee grinders for 100 years for your home and cafe. 

     

    Read Jonathan’s book, ‘Coffee: A Global History’ (https://amzn.to/3dihAfU)

     

    Support James’ work directly by buying him a coffee at Ko-fi.com/FilterStories

     

    Pick up a copy of Margrit Schulte Beerbühl’s book, Kaffee Ist Fertig! 

     

    Read James’ article on Frederick the Great’s attempt to ban coffee in Standart

     

     

    Go on your own Hamburg coffee tour!

     

    Giant bean 

    Speicherstadt Museum 

    Burg Coffee Museum in the Speicherstadt

    Becking, 100 year old coffee roasters

    1950s Rebuilt Coffee Exchange - and an Instagram post coming on @filterstoriespodcast

     

     

    Go deeper into the story of Mahlkönig’s grinders

     

    Early EKs - post coming on @filterstoriespodcast

    DK (aka Donkey Kong Dreiphasen Kaffeemühle)

    Grind-by-Sync espresso grinders

    EK Omnia

    Guatemala

    Matt Perger WBC routine demonstrating the EK

    Filter Stories episode on grinding curves


    Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

    Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

    "Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.

    Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

    Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

    "Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.
    51 min
  • Introducing: Series Three 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.


    Is it possible to follow the story not just to Ethiopia, not just to a single town, but all the way back to one tree?


    We’ll uncover the uncomfortable history of Guatemala — a story about who inherited the rich volcanic soil, and who was forced to work it.


    We explore what happens when our worst nightmare comes true: coffee disappears from the shelves. What did people brew instead? Was any of it actually drinkable?


    And we tell the story of how coffee can shape the massive port city of Hamburg, and how Hamburg then went on to shape the global coffee world.


    If we want to make coffee a more equitable industry that’s also kinder to the environment, a place to start is understanding the stories and systems that put the coffee into your cup this morning.

     

    Press the ‘Subscribe’ button so you don’t miss future episodes.


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

    Follow us on Instagram! Jonathan Morris @coffeehistoryjm and James Harper @filterstoriespodcast.

    This free educational content was made possible with the support of Mahlkönig, manufacturers of world-class grinders for 100 years.


    Subscribe to The Science of Coffee podcast


    Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

    Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

    "Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.

    Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

    Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

    "Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.
    3 min
  • 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 explanation is pretty straightforward: an English colonist introduces coffee to Jamestown in 1607. 150 years later Americans rebel against the British by throwing tea chests into Boston harbour and drinking coffee becomes their patriotic duty. Oh, and of course who won the civil war? The side that had the coffee.

    But, actually, the truth is much more surprising, and reveals a much more counter-intuitive story of America.

    In this final episode of Series Two of A History of Coffee, we offer you a story of America through the lens of a black drink, another black drink, a third black drink and perhaps even a fourth.

    A History of Coffee is a collaboration between documentary maker James Harper of the Filter Stories coffee podcast and Jonathan Morris, Professor of History and author of ‘Coffee: A Global History’.
    Don't miss future episodes by pressing the 'Subscribe' or 'Follow' button in your podcast player.

    -----------

    Please spread the word about A History of Coffee!

    Follow us on Instagram - Jonathan (@coffeehistoryjm) and James (@filterstoriespodcast) - and tag us in an Instagram story.

    Write a review on Apple Podcasts (http://apple.co/3jY42aJ)

    Leave a 5 star rating on Spotify (https://spoti.fi/3K2h4RQ)


    This free educational content for the coffee community was made possible by Rancilio, manufacturers of professional Italian espresso machines for your home and coffee bar for almost 100 years
    (https://link.filterstories.org/3U3oLMz)


    Read Jonathan’s book, ‘Coffee: A Global History’ (https://amzn.to/3dihAfU)

    Listen to other coffee documentaries on James’ Filter Stories podcast (https://link.filterstories.org/3ajoT5e)

    Download all episodes of this second series right now by subscribing to the ‘A History of Coffee’ podcast channel (https://link.filterstories.org/2NArChO)


    Learn how Brazil massively expanded output in episode three of the first series of A History of Coffee: Coffee Catches Fire (https://link.filterstories.org/2NArChO)

    Brew up some Yaupon Holly! (https://link.filterstories.org/40R6IuY)

    Discover Deb Hunter's All Things Tudor podcast (https://link.filterstories.org/3L5OZet)

    Subscribe to The Science of Coffee podcast

    Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

    Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

    "Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.

    Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

    Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

    "Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.
    45 min
  • 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, timeless Italian coffee experience: Rich thick coffee, an affordable price and great theatre.

    But this Italian ritual is surprisingly young, so young that Howard Schultz was in school while some of it was being developed!

    In this third episode of Series Two of A History of Coffee, we show you why for most of Italy’s history, coffee was thin, expensive, dull to watch…and that’s if you were lucky enough to even be drinking the real stuff at all!

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

    -----------

    Don't miss future episodes by pressing the 'Subscribe' or 'Follow' button in your podcast player


    Please spread the word about A History of Coffee!

    Follow us on Instagram - Jonathan (@coffeehistoryjm) and James (@filterstoriespodcast) - and tag us in an Instagram story.

    Write a review on Apple Podcasts (http://apple.co/3jY42aJ)

    Leave a 5 star rating on Spotify (https://spoti.fi/3K2h4RQ)


    This free educational content for the coffee community was made possible by Rancilio, manufacturers of professional Italian espresso machines for your home and coffee bar for almost 100 years
    (https://link.filterstories.org/3U3oLMz)


    Read Jonathan’s book, ‘Coffee: A Global History’ (https://amzn.to/3dihAfU)

    Listen to other coffee documentaries on James’ Filter Stories podcast (https://link.filterstories.org/3ajoT5e)

    Download all episodes of this second series right now by subscribing to the ‘A History of Coffee’ podcast channel (https://link.filterstories.org/2NArChO)


    Go deeper into the story of espresso machines:

    James' science podcast about Espresso Machine Technology

    Neapolitan coffee maker (https://link.filterstories.org/3zZCivl)

    Espresso at 1906 World’s Fair in Milan (https://link.filterstories.org/3MOX7kQ)

    Rancilio's Museum, Officina Rancilio 1926 (https://link.filterstories.org/3Q7vqTI)

    "La Cornuta" espresso machine (https://link.filterstories.org/41uBryd)

    Rancilio's Berlin Showroom, the BER Rancilio Station (https://link.filterstories.org/3mD0lNA)

    Subscribe to The Science of Coffee podcast

    Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

    Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

    "Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.

    Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

    Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

    "Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.
    45 min
  • 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 a week for love nor money.

    In this second episode of Series Two of A History of Coffee, we show you how colonialism and racism dragged Haiti into poverty, and the role of coffee at the centre of it.

    Be warned: this episode contains graphic descriptions of violence.

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

    -----------

    Don't miss future episodes by pressing the 'Subscribe' or 'Follow' button in your podcast player


    Please spread the word about A History of Coffee!

    Follow us on Instagram - Jonathan (@coffeehistoryjm) and James (@filterstoriespodcast) - and tag us in an Instagram story.

    Write a review on Apple Podcasts (http://apple.co/3jY42aJ)

    Leave a 5 star rating on Spotify (https://spoti.fi/3K2h4RQ)


    This free educational content for the coffee community was made possible by Rancilio, manufacturers of professional Italian espresso machines for your home and coffee bar for almost 100 years
    (https://link.filterstories.org/3U3oLMz)


    Read Jonathan’s book, ‘Coffee: A Global History’ (https://amzn.to/3dihAfU)

    Listen to other coffee documentaries on James’ Filter Stories podcast (https://link.filterstories.org/3ajoT5e)

    Download all episodes of this second series right now by subscribing to the ‘A History of Coffee’ podcast channel (https://link.filterstories.org/2NArChO)

    Subscribe to The Science of Coffee podcast

    Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

    Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

    "Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.

    Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

    Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

    "Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.
    48 min
  • 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 conversations give birth to modern finance and even the founding of great artistic and scientific institutions.

    Meanwhile, other ideas threaten those in power, and have led to many attempts to ban coffeeshops (and even coffee itself!) these last 500 years.

    In the first episode of Series Two of A History of Coffee, we show you how the coffee shop changed the world, and we ask whether it still has what it takes to upend society.

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

    -----------

    Don't miss future episodes by pressing the 'Subscribe' or 'Follow' button in your podcast player


    Please spread the word about A History of Coffee!

    Follow us on Instagram - Jonathan (@coffeehistoryjm) and James (@filterstoriespodcast) - and tag us in an Instagram story.

    Write a review on Apple Podcasts (http://apple.co/3jY42aJ)

    Leave a 5 star rating on Spotify (https://spoti.fi/3K2h4RQ)


    This free educational content for the coffee community was made possible by Rancilio, manufacturers of professional Italian espresso machines for your home and coffee bar for almost 100 years
    (https://link.filterstories.org/3U3oLMz)


    Read Jonathan’s book, ‘Coffee: A Global History’ (https://amzn.to/3dihAfU)

    Listen to other coffee documentaries on James’ Filter Stories podcast (https://link.filterstories.org/3ajoT5e)

    Download all episodes of this second series right now by subscribing to the ‘A History of Coffee’ podcast channel (https://link.filterstories.org/2NArChO)

    Subscribe to The Science of Coffee podcast

    Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

    Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

    "Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.

    Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

    Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

    "Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.
    46 min

About A History of Coffee

From the publisher's feed

A History of Coffee is the story of how a tiny psychoactive seed changed the world and shapes our lives today.

More shows like A History of Coffee

HistoryExtra podcast by Immediate

HistoryExtra podcast

3,204 Listeners

Dan Snow's History Hit by History Hit

Dan Snow's History Hit

4,761 Listeners

The Daily by The New York Times

The Daily

111,845 Listeners

Up First from NPR by NPR

Up First from NPR

56,468 Listeners

Filter Stories - Coffee Documentaries by James Harper

Filter Stories - Coffee Documentaries

94 Listeners

The Ancients by History Hit

The Ancients

3,377 Listeners

The Rest Is History by Goalhanger

The Rest Is History

15,743 Listeners

Adventures In Coffee by Jools Walker

Adventures In Coffee

27 Listeners

Gone Medieval by History Hit

Gone Medieval

1,892 Listeners

Not Just the Tudors by History Hit

Not Just the Tudors

2,058 Listeners

Today In History with The Retrospectors by The Retrospectors

Today In History with The Retrospectors

113 Listeners

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society by History Hit

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

1,395 Listeners

Empire: World History by Goalhanger

Empire: World History

2,460 Listeners

The Science of Coffee by James Harper

The Science of Coffee

29 Listeners

After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal by History Hit

After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

1,137 Listeners

The Global Story by BBC World Service

The Global Story

385 Listeners

The Headlines by The New York Times

The Headlines

747 Listeners