A History of Coffee
- Arts · Food
- History
- Society & Culture · Documentary
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A History of Coffee is the story of how a tiny psychoactive seed changed the world and shapes our lives today. Across six episodes, documentary maker James Harper and professional historian Jonathan Morris narrate how humans race coffee across oceans to keep up with demand for this addictive drink. Coffee creates enormous fortunes for some, and misery for others. Sometimes the environment benefits, but more often it is plundered. 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 in...
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- Guatemala’s Inconvenient Truth, Part 2: Who does specialty serve?
- Guatemala’s Inconvenient Truth, Part 1: Whose land is it anyway?
- Surrogates: Anything but the coffee
- Mother Coffee: The history and heritage of Ethiopia’s wild coffee forests
- We Built This City…On Coffee: Hamburg and the making of Europe’s coffee trade
- Introducing: Series Three of A History of Coffee
- 4) Just Friends? America’s love affair with coffee
- 3) Espresso Lungo: The slow road to Italy’s democratic espresso culture
- 2) A Lasting Stain: Haiti, Colonialism and Coffee
- 1) It’s Just Coffee? How coffee houses changed the world