Training Grounds

This is part 2! Be sure to listen to part 1. In this half, Katie follows coffee’s journey in American culture post WWI, including The Great Depression and WWII. Then, she goes into the cafe culture of NYC, and breaks down the “waves” of coffee.Accompanying training document and sources available at www.TrainingGroundsPodcast.comMusic from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https:/

In part one of this two-parter, Katie covers coffee’s intro to Colonial America, brewing a colonial cup, coffee through the civil war, industrialization and through WWI.Accompanying training document and sources available at www.TrainingGroundsPodcast.comMusic from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/prigida/be-with-meLicense code: 9UQPS3DWN11HDAOD

Katie discusses coffee shop culture in 16th century Istanbul, 17th century England, Colonial America and 18th century France, and how it influenced political and social revolutions there.Accompanying training document and sources available at www.TrainingGroundsPodcast.comMusic from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/prigida/be-with-meLicense code: 9UQPS3DWN11HDAOD

In the inaugural episode of the Training Grounds podcast, Katie covers the often obscured history of coffee. Analyzing how coffee went from something being intentionally grown willingly, to the product of brutal forced labor. From the plant’s origins in 500AD, through the Haitian Revolution, The Scramble For Africa, The Fourteen Families of El Salvador, to today and what we can d