#81 The History of Coffee w/ Mark Pendergrast
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Americans love coffee. According to recent statistics, more than 60% of Americans drink at least one cup of coffee every day, and the market research firm Mintel predicts that coffee shops will take in more than $23 billion dollars in 2017. Our love for coffee ties us to people and countries around the world, and to those who lived long before us. In this episode of The Road to Now, we speak with Mark Pendergrast, author of Uncommon Grounds and Beyond Fair Trade to find out coffee's origins, its effects on global trade, and how a small cherry that originated on the other side of the planet became part of our daily life.
We're also excited to welcome our newest sponsor, La Cosecha Coffee Roasters. La Cosecha is dedicated to connecting people together by offering fresh-roasted coffee grown in a sustainable manner where the farmer is given a fair price. You can visit their coffee bar in Maplewood, Missouri, or order online and have their coffee shipped directly to your home. We're happy to have such a great business supporting The Road to Now, so we hope you'll show them some love!
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| 0:00.0 | Our friend Dolphus Ramser was born and raised in Concord, North Carolina, a town so rich |
| 0:07.4 | with history that it provided the inspiration for his independent record label and management |
| 0:12.6 | company. |
| 0:13.7 | So great was the city's influence on Ramzer that he continues to live and work in Concord |
| 0:19.0 | today with a full-time staff located in both North Carolina |
| 0:22.7 | and California. He and his team always put their clients music first, work as hard as they can, |
| 0:28.7 | and have fun along the way. Visit Ramser.com to learn more. |
| 0:36.9 | I'm Bob Crawford, and today I'm joined by a special guest, Jamie Jeske from La Coseccia Coffee in St. Louis, Missouri. |
| 0:48.7 | Jamie's here because La Cosecahia is the newest Road to Now sponsor. |
| 0:53.4 | Jamie, welcome to the show. Hey, hi, Bob. |
| 0:55.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:56.0 | Well, it's a pleasure to have you. |
| 0:58.0 | Could you tell our listeners a little bit about LACOSHA and your mission? |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, sure. |
| 1:04.0 | So, LACAHA Coffee Roasters, we started about 11 years ago, and just to give you a brief history how our mission got started really is that a friend of mine from church, Gio Sparks, he brought over some coffee to my house that he had roasted himself in a hot air popcorn popper. |
| 1:24.8 | And he said, Jamie, you got to try this. |
| 1:27.1 | It's fantastic. And so he knew I |
| 1:29.4 | like coffee. So I gave it a try. And it was just outstanding, so much better than anything I'd ever |
| 1:36.1 | had before. So, so I started getting into home roasting and a hot air popcorn popper. And so that's |
| 1:43.0 | kind of how the hobby began. And we were talking about it. |
| 1:45.8 | And then I always wanted to be an entrepreneur. So one day when I was flying back from a trip, |
| 1:51.6 | I thought, you know, with my sales and marketing background and interest in geography and different |
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