Throw away the Folgers.

If your coffee comes from metal cans or has been sitting in the icebox for months next to that freezer burned box of Fudgsicles, throw it out, and then listen to this week’s podcast.

This week I sit down with Thomas Meinl, the fourth generation from Vienna’s Julius Meinl coffee roasting family, and Doug Zell, the founder and CEO of Chicago’s craft coffee roaster, Intelligentsia. We talk about issues of fair trade, the economics of coffee, the best way to brew coffee, the story of how coffee came to Vienna, and eating mole and drinking Mezcal in Oaxaca.

If you have Macromedia Flash installed, you can play the file right on this site, below, by pressing the play button. If not, download the file and play it on your PC or on an MP3 player here: Thomas Meinl and Doug Zell Interview

Go inside Intelligentsia’s newest cafe with a photo slide show from Hungry photographer Tuan Bui.

Go inside Chicago’s Julius Meinl Cafe with a photo slide show from Hungry photographer Tuan Bui.