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History of Coffee: Sleep Story (With Rain Sounds)
Tonight, drift off to the entire history of coffee. A slow, calming bedtime
story for adults, told over gentle rain sounds to help you fall asleep and
stay asleep.
Coffee, the thing most of us reach for to wake up, is about to become the thing that helps you fall asleep. Tonight's episode traces the entire, sprawling history of coffee: from a semi-legendary goat herder in the Ethiopian highlands, through the Sufi mystics and banned coffeehouses of the Ottoman Empire, into the cafés of Venice, Oxford, and Enlightenment-era Paris, across the smuggled seedlings and forced labor that built the…
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