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Café Con Leche: Tampa History in a Cup

WUSF | By Robin Sussingham
Published July 18, 2019 at 6:58 AM EDT
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Café con leche played a key role in Tampa's cigar industry.
Mario Sánchez Prada/Flickr Creative Commons
Café con leche played a key role in Tampa's cigar industry.
Credit Mario Sánchez Prada/Flickr Creative Commons

Historian Rodney Kite-Powell explains to Robin Sussingham how coffee fueled Tampa's cigar industry.

Whether coffee runs through your veins or you can't stand the stuff, you'll be fascinated by the role a simple cup o' joe played during the heyday of Tampa's cigar industry.

In a conversation for WUSF's food podcast, The Zest, Rodney Kite Powell of the Tampa Bay History Center breaks down our region's love affair with java.  

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Robin Sussingham
Robin is Senior Editor at WUSF, spearheading the station's podcasting initiatives and helping to guide the vision for special reporting projects and creative storytelling. She hosts the weekly current affairs program, Florida Matters, on WUSF and also created The Zest, the station's podcast that's all about food, which she continues to host and serve as senior producer.
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