Coffee / 咖啡
74.全球上瘾：啊，咖啡！我黑色的阿波罗！ adds coffee as a world-historical commodity and public drink. The episode follows [[Coffee|coffee]] from origin legends and Arab/Ottoman controversy through European adoption, Paris coffeehouses, French monopoly attempts, industrial labor, military supply, speculation, and Brazilian overproduction. Its main contribution is to connect the drink to Caffeinated Modernity, Coffeehouse Public Sphere, Coffee Commodity Politics, and Material History Narrative.
The existing wiki already tracked coffee as a modern consumer category. 141. 咖啡战争2026：机构化与本土化 frames China’s chain-coffee market through Luckin Coffee / 瑞幸咖啡, Blue Bottle Coffee / 蓝瓶子, Starbucks, Coffee Chain Institutionalization, Coffee Chain Localization, Premium-Everyday Brand Tension, and Beverage Category Convergence. 137. 从顺德猪肉婆到韩国圣水洞：那些AI无法取代的体验消费 adds coffee shops to Korean and offline experience consumption through South Korea / 韩国, Manner Coffee, Sandunban / 三顿半, and AI Resistant Experiential Consumption.
Other sources treat coffee as habit, channel, or product use case. EP35 降薪不降质？中产阶级最后的倔强 uses coffee spending to discuss Lifestyle Cost Rationalization and Middle-Class Consumption Pressure. Advice Line with Christina Tosi of Milk Bar uses Vashon Island Coffee Dust to show gift-to-repeat-buyer behavior. Advice Line with Susan Griffin-Black of EO Products uses Cane Dog Coffee to discuss local proof and relationship-led channel growth.
Connections
- [[QuanqiuShangyin|《全球上瘾》]] - historical book that makes coffee the protagonist of a material history.
- Caffeinated Modernity - wakefulness, anti-alcohol contrast, work discipline, and rational-public symbolism.
- Coffeehouse Public Sphere - coffeehouses as public conversation and surveillance spaces.
- Coffee Commodity Politics and Commodity Price Exposure - trade, monopoly, speculation, and producer-price problems.
- Coffee Chain Institutionalization, Coffee Chain Localization, Premium-Everyday Brand Tension, and Beverage Category Convergence - modern chain-coffee market concepts.
- Vashon Island Coffee Dust, Cane Dog Coffee, Starbucks, Luckin Coffee / 瑞幸咖啡, Blue Bottle Coffee / 蓝瓶子, Manner Coffee, and Sandunban / 三顿半 - coffee-related entities already tracked by the wiki.