If you are a coffee connoisseur, this episode is just for you. Not many people start their day without a cup of coffee, it maybe drip coffee from a nearby convenient store or a fancy white chocolate mocha.

I sit down with Social anthropologist and the author of the book Making Better Coffee Dr. Edward Fischer to discuss the history, evolution and waves of coffee culture. This is part 1 of a two part episode. In this part we focus on the history and evolution of coffee culture. Dr. Fischer is a professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and his research focuses on political economy, wellbeing and social economy. He is a highly cited researcher and expert in his field who also co-founded the social enterprise Mani+ that develops and produces locally sourced complementary foods to fight malnutrition.

Dr Fischer's works:

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520386969/making-better-coffee

https://as.vanderbilt.edu/anthropology/bio/ted-fischer

Third Wave Coffee:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-wave_coffee

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