Coffee and the God Shot. The Drinks Menu
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Dan Saladino journeys into coffee's past, present and future. He discovers a world of new flavours, far from his formative espresso experiences in Sicily - and finds that things are more precarious than they may seem. Are we living in a golden age of coffee?
Behind every cup of coffee is a story - or rather many stories. A whole chain, from people to processes, all of which make a difference to the taste and experience.
Featured in the programme are Stephen Leighton - roaster and founder of Hasbean, James Hoffman - author of 'The World Atlas of Coffee: From Beans to Brewing', Barista Claire Wallace - Winner of the 2015 Scottish Aeropress Championships, Professor Robert W Thurston - coffee shop owner and Senior Editor of 'Coffee - A Comprehensive Guide', Alejandro Martinez - Coffee Grower in El Salvador and Sarada Krishnan - Director of Horticulture at the Denver Botanic Gardens and coffee scientist..... and Joe of Brew in Bristol who makes Dan's espressos when he takes a break from The Food Programme office.
The podcast of this programme features extra material, including coffee businessman Kenfe Bellay on the Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony and a new coffee story from the Ark of Taste.
Producer: Rich Ward.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for downloading this special podcast of the food program. |
| 0:03.4 | I'm Dan Saladino and this is an extended edition of our program on coffee, |
| 0:08.9 | including some extra stories we wanted to share with you. I hope you enjoy it. Do let us know what you think on |
| 0:15.4 | social media. We are at BBC Food Prog. And if you like what you hear, please leave us a review on iTunes it'll help others with a keen interest in |
| 0:25.7 | food and coffee find us now on with the program |
| 0:31.7 | okay this could all go spectacularly wrong because I'm on a street and about to pay a surprise visit to someone |
| 0:38.0 | to ask them a question and make a very simple point. |
| 0:41.0 | And that's how much the subject of this program means to me, how much I love it |
| 0:46.2 | that I don't think I can live without it. Here comes the surprise. Don't panic, it's only a microphone. |
| 0:56.0 | You don't know me and I don't really know you but you know something about when I come in here what is it? |
| 1:02.0 | It's that you love your espresso. |
| 1:04.0 | You're going to have a nice little espresso. |
| 1:06.0 | You take great pride in having that espresso. |
| 1:08.0 | In terms of my degree of commitment and loyalty to espresso, |
| 1:11.0 | between 1 and 10. |
| 1:12.7 | What would you put it at? |
| 1:13.7 | You're definitely a purest. |
| 1:15.0 | I'll put you up there at 10. |
| 1:16.4 | Definitely a purest. |
| 1:18.7 | That's Joe, by the way. |
| 1:20.0 | He runs a coffee shop. |
| 1:21.6 | And like my doctor and dentist doesn't really know me but does. |
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