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Daily Rituals · Season 1

BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection

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Better Vice Club: a cited, audio-first history of Coffee — The Daily Global Connection.

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Lessons

  1. 1. Coffee, and Why a Cup Is a Classroomtext
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  2. 2. The Coffee Belt: Where Coffee Grows and Whytext
  3. 3. The Big Producers and Their Terroirmap
  4. 4. Climate Change Is Redrawing the Maptext
  5. 5. The Coffeehouse Revolutiontext
  6. 6. Two Truths: Democracy and Colonial Labormap
  7. 7. Follow the Money: Bean to Cuptext
  8. 8. Fair Trade, Direct Trade, and Commoditytext
  9. 9. Price Shocks and Why You Keep Buyingtext
  10. 10. The Words Coffee Carriestext
  11. 11. The Ethiopian Ceremony as Storytext
  12. 12. Reading a Coffee Adtext
  13. 13. Key Terms: Coffeetext
  14. 14. Cumulative Review: Coffeetext
  15. 15. Sources and Further Reading: Coffeetext
  16. 16. Knowledge Check: Coffeequiz
  17. 17. Assignmenttext

Key terms

Arabica/əˈrabɪkə/
Coffea arabica, the species behind most specialty coffee, first cultivated in Ethiopia and Yemen.
Terroir/tɛˈrwɑːr/
The environmental conditions (soil, altitude, climate) that give a crop its distinctive character.

Sources

  1. International Coffee Organization. (2023). Coffee market report.link
  2. Pendergrast, M. (2010). Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World. Basic Books.