BLACK AS HELL STRONG AS DEATH AND SWEET AS LOVE

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>BLACK AS HELL STRONG AS DEATH SWEET AS LOVE: A Coffee Travel Guide</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is the first and only book to trace coffee consumption from its origins in prehistory to becoming the world's second-most-valuable commodity after oil-and to pair this history with replicable affordable Coffee Experiences that provide a unique approach and added value to the readers' destinations no matter how many times they've been there before. This book is a multi-genre travel book with unique historical insights that immerse the reader in the culture of a country or city through the lens of the destination's deep relationship with coffee. </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>No other travel book has ever provided the kind of total immersion into a country or city-through histories travel directions one-of-a-kind photos and recipes-that <em>BLACK AS HELL STRONG AS DEATH SWEET AS LOVE: A Coffee Travel Guide</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>delivers in every chapter.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The timing is right for </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>BLACK AS HELL STRONG AS DEATH SWEET AS LOVE: A Coffee Travel Guide</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> a history of coffee and a travel guide to Coffee Experiences on almost every continent. Plus there are recipes.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Among the Coffee Experience destinations are places that almost no one goes to like Ethiopia's South Omo and places masses of tourists go to like Paris. Other Coffee Experiences are closer to home for Americans as simple as sharing a </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>colada </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>at a </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>ventanilla</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> in Miami's Little Havana; or taking the Canal streetcar to the end of the line where Morning Call in New Orleans' Spanish moss-shrouded City Park offers chicory coffee beignets crawfish bread gumbo alligator sausage and jambalaya just a short walk away from the last remaining section of Bayou Metairie.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>These Coffee Experiences result from three years of related travel five years of research and decades of travel and travel writing. These are the Best of the Best the Coffee Experiences that surpassed all our expectations.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Linking the Coffee Experiences to history provides a unique approach to a city or country's particular relationship to coffee. Coffee Experiences may be in the middle of or adjacent to heavily touristed areas but for the most part they are places barely mentioned in guidebooks.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Coffee Trail is full of curious twists and turns spanning millennia and the rise and fall of great civilizations. </span></p><p></p><p></p>