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Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories

The Sleepy History of Pumpkin Spice

Oct 30, 2024
49:45

Narrator: Chloe De Burgh 🇬🇧

Writer: Alicia Steffann ✍️

Sound design: autumnal breeze, footsteps on leaves, snapping twigs 🍂🥾🪵 

Includes mentions of: Food, Nostalgia, Autumn, Baking, Colonialism, Slavery and Abolition, Beverages, US History, Farming, Americana, Literature & Literary History, Coffee. 


Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we'll trace the unlikely trajectory of pumpkin spice by taking a trip through history, starting with the origins of the spice trade and making our way to the counter of the modern coffee shop. 😴


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