Tuesday, May 17

 
Coffee, Guns and Land Mines

Here's a story about how coffee gets from the slopes of Nicaragua to your breakfast table. But, author Sam Gugino ("Sam Cooks") adds a twist with the kick of a quadruple espresso.

Gugino's story is a wilder ride than usual into the heart of coffee country. In the first five paragraphs he introduces assault-rifle-equipped guards riding along with his excursion AND teams of land-mine hunters removing reminders of Contra fortifications from the 1980s.

Not your usual collection of lyrical descriptions, cliched travelogues and overworked adjectives, to be sure.

This article is from Gugino's most recent Sam Cooks ezine. Definitely worth checking out. Sam is a great straightforward food writer, nothing cutesy. He wrote the Cooking to Beat the Clock books, has backgrounds in both food and journalism and writes a solid column.
posted by Unknown 10:08 AM