Season 7 · Episode 5
S7E3: A Short Philippine History of Beverages
The Colonial Department · The Colonial Department
July 18, 202516m 15s
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Show Notes
<html><p>Coffee. Tea. Cocoa. The three have a surprisingly rich, complex, and layered history in the Philippines. How did they arrive here, and what effect did they have in the archipelago’s colonial period?</p><p><br/></p><p>Follow us on IG: <u><a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a></u></p><p>Follow us on TikTok: <u><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thecolonialdept" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a></u></p><p>Email us: <u><a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a></u></p><p><br/></p><p>Thanks to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/beachreads.kap" target="_blank">Beach Reads Book Club</a> (based in <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thebeachhousekapitolyo" target="_blank">The Beach House</a> cafe in Kapitolyo) for hosting the live premiere of this episode last July 5. </p><p><br/></p><p>References:</p><p><br/></p><p>Acabado, Stephen (4 May 2025). “[Time Trowel] A drunk history of the Philippines.” <em>Rappler. </em><u><a href="https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-drunk-history-philippines/" target="_blank">https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-drunk-history-philippines/</a></u></p><p>Edgar, Blake (2010). “The Power of Chocolate.” <em>Archaeology, 63</em>(6), pp. 20-25. <u><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/41780626" target="_blank">https://www.jstor.org/stable/41780626</a></u></p><p>Doeppers, Daniel (2016). <em>Feeding Manila in Peace and War, 1850-1945. </em>Ateneo de Manila University Press.</p><p>Topik, Steven (2003). <em>The World Coffee Market in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, from Colonial to National Regimes. </em>GEHN Conference, Bankside, London.</p><p>Sonnad, Nikhil (11 January 2018). “Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea.” <em>Vox.</em></p><p>Chia, Lucille (2006). “The Butcher, the Baker, and the Carpenter: Chinese Sojourners in the Spanish Philippines and Their Impact on Southern Fujian (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries).” <em>Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 49</em>(4), pp. 509-534.</p><p>Lanzona, Claudine (2019). “The Search Party.” <em>Grid. </em></p><p>“Cocoa (cacao).” (n.d.) <em>Plant Village. </em><u><a href="https://plantvillage.psu.edu/topics/cocoa-cacao/infos" target="_blank">https://plantvillage.psu.edu/topics/cocoa-cacao/infos</a></u></p><p>Crawford, John (1852). “History of Coffee.” Journal of the Statistical Society of London, 15(1), pp. 50-58.</p></html>