A History of Coffee
Episodes
Guatemala’s Inconvenient Truth, Part 2: Who does specialty serve?
This episode explores how specialty coffee impacted Guatemala’s indigenous Mayan communities, contrasting their collective values with market demands for high-volume, unique flavors.
Guatemala’s Inconvenient Truth, Part 1: Whose land is it anyway?
This episode of A History of Coffee explores Guatemala’s dark colonial legacy, featuring anthropologists Juan José López and Ted Fisher.
Surrogates: Anything but the coffee
Hosts James Harper and Jonathan Morris explore the history of coffee surrogates, tasting substitutes like chicory, acorn, and Postum that emerged during wars, economic crises, and health scares.