To answer my title, I don’t know. I first heard of Lucia’s work in 2017 from Heleanna in Ethiopia. And it took me 6 years to listen to episode 1 ! The podcast is both very relatable, even while trying to make concepts I find fairly challenging more accessible. Lucia seems to really want people to get it, and I think that’s what makes someone a good teacher. Some of this is very provocative and makes a listener like me spin off different ideas, even opposing ones or to want to add something else to an issue I find missing … and to me that’s really the hallmark of good “content”. It activates the listener, provokes you to think about the ideas in to respond. and Lucia accommodates this dialogue through her Patreon dialogues where people can submit questions or be involved in a informal conversation. If you have an interest in coffee, in sensory science, or chemistry, I think you can approach this podcast from many directions and find it enriching. The way Lucia talks, shares information and opinion, and brings up her own experiences that can_or even contradict and complicate other parts of the message, only enrich the listening experience for me. I see another review where somebody criticizes this exact point, the fact she was a late comer to Coffee, and it was not that appealing to her, or that her podcast isn’t “sterile “ enough?!? . Well, I find those all to be the strong points of her work that she doesn’t generously shares here, and I suppose some reviews nullify themselves by their own choice of words. Lol.
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