EPISODE · May 5, 2025 · 15 MIN
"From Sacred Smuggling to India's Coffee Legacy: The Untold Coffee Saga"
from La Taza Habla · host doncox
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Discover the daring tale of Baba Budan, the 17th-century Sufi saint who smuggled seven sacred coffee beans in his beard from Yemen to India, breaking Arabia’s coffee monopoly and planting the seeds that would transform the hills of Chikmagalur into the birthplace of Indian coffee. Follow this remarkable journey from a single act of agricultural espionage to India becoming the world’s sixth-largest coffee producer.
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