There isn’t any scarcity of high-quality espresso podcasts on the market vying on your listening ears. We’re keen on our personal Espresso Sprudgecast, however it’s definitely not the one one within the medium value your consideration. You needn’t look a lot additional than the Finest Espresso Podcast class of the Sprudgie Awards over time to have already got an overfull plate.

However ought to your day in some way represent greater than 24 hours and you end up needing one thing to fill it, there’s a new podcast so audacious and grand in scope that it’ll certainly preserve you entertained the remainder of time. All About Espresso, a Web page by Web page Podcast is a brand new podcast by Covoya’s Mike Ferguson who takes the lengthy street in studying William Harrison Ukers’s basic espresso ebook, one web page at a time.

 

Printed over 100 years in the past, All About Espresso is an 800-page compendium a seminal textual content within the espresso world masking a broad vary of espresso subjects. From historical past and lineage to economics and chemistry and even etiquette, All About Espresso showcases Ukers’ exhaustive love of espresso from each his educational and fanatic sides.

And there may be maybe no higher individual within the {industry} to deal with the problem of podcasting their means by means of such an intimidating tome than Ferguson. A gifted yarn weaver and historian of the century-old ebook, Ferguson received’t be dashing his means by means of the expansive undertaking. Half ebook on tape, half podcast, and half director’s commentary, All About Espresso, a Web page by Web page Podcast is taking it “one web page, one paragraph, one sentence, one rabbit gap at a time,” with Covoya’s Chief Storyteller seeking to increase on the ebook, offering further context and musings to bridge the hole between 1922 and as we speak. “No matter it takes to work our means by means of over 800 pages of what was arguably a very powerful espresso ebook of the twentieth century,” Ferguson says of the podcast.

A part of The Change, Covoya’s Espresso Podcasting Community that features industry-oriented titles like Ristretto and One other Cup, All About Espresso, a Web page by Web page Podcast has launched their first episode, and in true sluggish burn trend, they haven’t even made it to web page one. The podcast’s maiden voyage is all about “biography, background, and frontmatter,” the stuff in a ebook earlier than chapter one will get going.

Within the age of short-form content material, the place the size of a chunk of media continues to contract to remain inside the confines of our ever-decreasing consideration span, it’s good to see somebody shifting in the wrong way, aggressively so. Will Ferguson make it all over All About Espresso? Solely time (plenty of it) will inform. But it surely’s a podcast that’s clearly extra involved in regards to the journey than the vacation spot. Could as effectively benefit from the trip.

Zac Cadwalader is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Community and a workers author primarily based in Dallas. Learn extra Zac Cadwalader on Sprudge.