Coffee
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🗓️ 7 July 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
A cup of coffee was once a luxury. Now it is quick, cheap and widely available — a daily essential for many.
How did this happen? Today on Patented, Jonathan Morris walks us through the evolution of coffee: from how people first figured out its psychoactive properties, to the transformations in roasting, processing and preparation that resulted in a coffee shop on every high street.
Listen to the History of Coffee podcast here.
Find Jonathan's book, Coffee: A Global History here.
This episode was produced by Emily Whalley
The senior producer is Charlotte Long
Edited and mixed by Seyi Adaobi
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, history at Listeners. I'm really happy that Dallas Campbell has joined Team |
| 0:04.6 | History at it. He's one of the best broadcasters out there. He makes science shows. People |
| 0:08.0 | watch them. They're great. He has a neck of infusing about things that you never remember |
| 0:13.4 | to get excited by. And that's what he does. On patented history of inventions, he talks |
| 0:18.1 | about the things that have transformed our world. You know, our story is really one of |
| 0:22.6 | inventions. It's about these apes with these opposable thumbs, working stuff out. So |
| 0:28.6 | from bronze to iron to putting a drone on Mars. We're just on one mad health-as-counter |
| 0:34.5 | journey. Who knows what's going to end? If you want a few guesses, you're going to see |
| 0:38.2 | where we've come from. Check out patented history of inventions with Dallas Campbell wherever |
| 0:43.0 | you get your pots. There have been some theories written that say, you know, coffee is at the |
| 0:48.7 | heart of the enlightenment, the industrial revolution, all of these things because actually |
| 0:53.1 | here it is, something sober, something that, you know, gets people more able to sit in |
| 0:58.4 | a positive cognitive space, if you like. |
| 1:00.4 | Ahoj there and welcome to patented a podcast all about the history of inventions. I'm your |
| 1:09.6 | host, Dallas Campbell. Thank you for joining me. Today we're going to be talking about something |
| 1:14.9 | that's been called by some drink for the devil. And by others, the elixir of life itself. |
| 1:20.5 | I am, of course, talking about the only psychoactive substance you can consume on the job without |
| 1:26.6 | eyebrows being raised. It's coffee, of course. Historically, the cup of coffee was a luxury |
| 1:32.0 | and now it's widely available. It's cheap, ish, quick to make, part of the essential hips |
| 1:37.0 | to lifestyle and the daily essential for many others. But how did this happen? Who made |
| 1:43.1 | the first cup of coffee and why? Coffee historian Jonathan Morris is joining me today as he |
| 1:49.1 | walks us through the timeline of coffee from its invention, which is a story that features |
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