The Sleepy History of Pumpkin Spice

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. 😴 Watch, listen and comment on this episode on the Get Sleepy YouTube channel. And hit subscribe while you're there! Enjoy various playlists of our stories and meditations on our Slumber Studios Spotify profile.