As an agricultural product that cross international borders, coffee is a multi-lingual phenomenon. The same coffee may be grown in a Spanish-speaking country before being imported and roasted in an English-speaking country. And now, one podcast is looking to bridge that language barrier separating the two ends of the supply chain. Cafetera Intelectual is a new bilingual podcast looking to โconnect coffee professionals in producing countries with those in consuming countries.โ
Cafetera Intelectual is the brainchild of Bay Area coffee professionals Sandra Loofbourow and Doris Garrido currently working at The Crown, Royal Coffeeโs Oakland tasting lab. For their project, Loofbourowโwho is of Chilean descentโand Garridoโborn in Mexicoโs Mayan Riveraโwant to focus on bringing broader attention to โSpanish speakers throughout the supply chain.โ Released weekly on Fridays, episodes feature guests from around the Spanish speaking coffee world including โproducers from Mexico and Bolivia [and] Barista League competitorsโ as well as conversations between the hosts on a variety of coffee topics, relying on their over two decades combined experience in the industry.
Each episode is originally recorded in Spanish, with a โsister episodeโ featuring English narration and interpretation to be released simultaneously as well as English transcripts posted to their blog shortly afterward.
Currently, two episodes of Cafetera Intelectual have been published. The first is a primer into the hosts and what the podcast looks to explore, and the second dives into coffee brewing, including home brewing, how it has changed over time, and extraction.
Episodes of Cafetera Intelectual are available to stream via their website or wherever you listen to podcast, including iTunes and Spotify. For more information visit Cafetera Intelectual’s official website.
Zac Cadwaladerย is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas.ย Read more Zac Cadwaladerย on Sprudge.
