Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCaffe Trieste: Papa Gianni Giotta's North Beach Espresso and the Beats
Episode 12428
Giovanni Giotta was born in 1920 in Rovigno d'Istria, a fishing town that was part of Italy before World War II and now belongs to Croatia. After the…
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Caffè Florian: Venice's 1720 Café That Admitted Women and Hid Masonic Art
Episode 12427
On December 29, 1720, Floriano Francesconi opened a two room coffee shop under the Procuratie Nuove in Piazza San Marco and named it Alla Venezia Tri…
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Café de Olla: Mexico's Unglazed Clay Pot Coffee, Piloncillo, and Clove
Episode 12426
Café de olla, literally pot coffee, is a traditional Mexican drink brewed in an unglazed earthenware pot with water, dark ground coffee, cinnamon, an…
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Karsk: Trondelag's 50-50 Coffee and Moonshine Rite of Passage in Norway
Episode 12425
Karsk is a Scandinavian drink of equal parts hot coffee and clear spirit: six centiliters of pure alcohol such as Everclear, vodka, or homemade moons…
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Leslie Buck's Anthora Cup: A Salesman's Greek Diner Pitch, No Royalties
Episode 12424
In 1963 Leslie Buck, an Eastern European immigrant selling blank paper cups for the Sherri Cup Company in New York, noticed how many of the city's di…
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Coffea Stenophylla: Sierra Leone's Purple Berry and a Lost 1898 Verdict
Episode 12423
Nearly all the world's coffee comes from two species: Coffea arabica, prized for flavor but dependent on cool highlands, and Coffea canephora, or Rob…
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The Stovetop Percolator: Hanson Goodrich's 1889 Pot and the Donut Filter
Episode 12422
For much of the 20th century the perk and gurgle of a percolator was the sound of the American morning. Inside, water in the bottom chamber boils and…
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The Long Black: Why Australian Cafés Pour the Water First to Save Crema
Episode 12421
On café menus in Sydney and Auckland, the long black sits beside the short black and the Americano, and the episode argues that choosing between them…
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The Caffè Lungo Explained: 1:4 Ratios, Late Tannins, and Quebec's Allongé
Episode 12420
Lungo is Italian for long, and a caffè lungo is an espresso pulled with roughly twice the usual water through the same dose of ground coffee. A stand…
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Angelo Moriondo's 1884 Espresso Patent: The Machine He Refused to Sell
Episode 12419
Angelo Moriondo was born in Turin on June 6, 1851, into a family of luxury makers: his grandfather founded a liqueur company, and his father Giacomo,…
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