Hi everyone, Lausley Montgomery here, bringing you a humble but hearty recommendation for a podcast

show I Came Across that looks at the history of coffee. It turns out that the history of this

other temperance beverage gifted to us by nature has a lot in common with the history of tea.

Documentarian and podcaster James Harper filter stories has joined up with history professor

Jonathan Morris to produce a nice short but sweet six-part series that looks at the history of

this aromatic psychoactive seed that like tea played no small part in changing the world.

If you like the tea history series, I warmly welcome you to go check this one out from James

and Jonathan that examines the impact of the coffee trade on world history. Behind all that goodness

that many of us enjoy once or several times daily, there's a centuries-long history that is both

fascinating and at times quite dark. Like with the history of tea, many people in the first links

of the coffee supply chain faced all manners of little-known human suffering. I invite you to

listen only six episodes, enjoy it with your morning cup of. Did you know coffee is also produced

in China? Yeah, the PRC is one of the top 20 producers in the world. Almost all the coffee in China

is overwhelmingly grown in good and non-provence, the same place where the original tea gardens existed,

thousands and thousands of years ago. You could learn all about this too in a history of coffee.

Links to the show can be found in the episode show notes.

I have in my hand here a coffee roasted by 19 grams, the Berlin Rostri, but it's from Guji,

Otto Shaqisou. Uh-huh. This is an Ethiopian coffee. Yeah. It also happens to be where coffee comes from.

You mean in the sense that Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee absolutely?

Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee. So take me back in time. What does that look like? What does that

mean? It means that the coffee is growing underneath the tree canopy of effectively what are

often called as the cloud forests of Ethiopia. I'm googling cloud canopy Ethiopia. Okay. And I see

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