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This charming book offers a tempting array of delicious iced fancies, cake pops, moreish muffins and much more - all at the perfect size for a small but sweet indulgence. A concise introduction shows you how to make a failproof cake batter plus offers some exciting ideas for filling and decorating your cakes. 25 recipes then follow, with something for everybody. Choose from Little Madeira Cakes with Cream and Jam, Old-Fashioned Jam Tarts, and light-as-air Madeleines. Included too are sweet treats with mouthwatering toppings such as Butterscotch Nut Muffins, Maple and Pecan Fudge Squares, and Sugar Sparkle Cupcakes. All the recipes are written with step-by-step instructions and are photographed throughout. Whether you're planning a fun tea party with friends or a special treat for the family there's plenty to choose from in this little book.

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Existe un archipiélago repleto de maravillas: las islas Hawái. Allí el Club de Tea se ve envuelto en una intriga explosiva! Resolverán el misterioantes de que el volcán Mauna Loa entre en erupción?

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Al bell mig de l'Oceà Pacífic hi ha un arxipèleg meravellós: Hawaï! Es allò on les Tea Sisters viatgen i s'enfronten a un misteri... explosiu! Aconseguiran resoldre el misteri del gos blanc abans que el volcà Mauna Loa exploti?

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More people than ever are discovering the restorative benefits of tea and the life-enriching divinatory practice of tea-leaf reading. In answer to the surging popularity of this healthy and mystical beverage, "Tea Leaf Reading for Beginners" teaches readers how to read and interpret tea-leaves in six simple steps. This complete guidebook explores the origins of tea and tea-leaf reading, ways of giving readings, divination ethics, tea's medicinal uses, herbal infusion preparation, and how to host a tea party. For quick and easy interpretation, hundreds of symbols and their meanings are included, organized by theme-animals, sun signs, plants, shapes, and many others.

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An in-depth look at the dynamic cultural world of tea in Japan during its formative period Around Chigusa investigates the cultural and artistic milieu in which a humble jar of Chinese origin dating to the thirteenth or fourteenth century became Chigusa, a revered, named object in the practice of formalized tea presentation (chanoyu) in sixteenth-century Japan. This tea-leaf storage jar lies at the nexus of interlocking personal networks, cultural values, and aesthetic idioms in the practice and appreciation of tea, poetry, painting, calligraphy, and Noh theater during this formative period of tea culture. The book's essays set tea in dialogue with other cultural practices, revealing larger cultural paradigms that informed the production, circulation, and reception of the artifacts used and displayed in tea. Key themes include the centrality of tea to the social life of and interaction among warriors, merchants, and the courtly elite; the multifaceted relationship between things wa (Japanese) and kan (Chinese) and between tea and poetry; the rise of new formats for display of the visual and calligraphic arts; and collecting and display as an expression of political power.

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It's not just about Camomile or Earl Grey - there are so many different teas from around the world waiting to be discovered and experimented with, and which will do wonders for your beauty and your garden. Most imortantly, Stanaway shows that teas are a key component of a healthy diet. The first chapter takes us through different the major tea types and varieties, a kind of Sibley's Guide to Teas. The rest of the book focusees on what we can do with teas, from tips on buying and storing them, to how to make use of them for caring for ourselves and our homes. Finally, there's a selection of the most delicious tea-containing recipes, carefully chosen to inspire and delight.

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A bright, fun introduction to bubble tea, including 35 recipes and plenty of background about this trendy drink! From its origins in Taiwan, bubble tea, or boba, has developed legions of ardent fans across the globe. Often topped with chewy balls of tapioca or other toppings, this sweet treat is colorful, fun, and personalized. Now, with this boba book, bubble tea lovers can make it themselves using all-natural ingredients! Wendy Leung describes how she began her own bubble teashop, Hello Always Tea, and shares 35 favorite recipes—from the homemade tapioca balls she sells, to familiar blended teas (milk tea, taro, and fruit-based), to adventurous options (brown sugar; trendy milk and cheese foam tea; teas made with plant-based milks; and carbonated variations). She also includes a few snack recipes to round out your boba experience. Illustrated with bright and cheerful photography throughout (including photos from Wendy’s travels in Taiwan), and packed with expertise about boba culture, The Boba Cookbook is a must-have boba recipe book for bubble tea enthusiasts. With 35 recipes featuring all-natural ingredients The Boba Cookbook is the perfect bubble tea book for boba fans ready to bring the phenomenon home, or for anyone looking for boba gifts for tea lovers.

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With High Tea, author Sandra Hinchliffe writes a totally new chapter in tea culture and the culinary art of cannabis cuisine. Teas, tisanes, broths, and bhangs are all exquisite ways to infuse marijuana for medicine or pleasure. With more than 75 recipes using a fascinating array of the finest teas, herbs, and ingredients, High Tea will show you

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Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others. from The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo. In the Japanese tea ceremony, the act of making and drinking a bowl of tea is an act of respect, gratitude and interconnectedness. It's about emptying your mind of cares as you enjoy one of life's simplest pleasures. Now, Meditations on Tea presents an adult colouring experience as soothing as a hot cup of your favourite tea blend. All aspects of Japanese art and culture are connected in some way with tea, and now these traditions can be explored and enjoyed in a beautiful new colouring book for adults. Meditations on Tea includes over 90 traditional Japanese images celebrating life and giving it meaning. whether we are experiencing a tea ceremony or enjoying a few minutes of peace and quiet after a long day. There are designs to suit every mood-from woodblock prints depicting Japanese life and myth to more thoughtful moods, to doodles with colour for creative relaxation all waiting for the artistic touch of your pencils or fine markers. Enjoy letting your creativity take the lead with this mix of images and wisdom from Japanese prints and books in 92 relaxing adult colouring pages.

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How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerismTea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. For centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about massive changes—in land use, labor systems, market practices, and social hierarchies—the effects of which are with us even today. A Thirst for Empire takes an in-depth historical look at how men and women—through the tea industry in Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa—transformed global tastes and habits. An expansive and original global history of imperial tea, A Thirst for Empire demonstrates the ways that this powerful enterprise helped shape the contemporary world.

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The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders doing work on black gender and sexuality. Building on the foundations laid by the earlier volume, this collection's contributors speak new truths about the black queer experience while exemplifying the codification of black queer studies as a rigorous and important field of study. Topics include "raw" sex, pornography, the carceral state, gentrification, gender nonconformity, social media, the relationship between black feminist studies and black trans studies, the black queer experience throughout the black diaspora, and queer music, film, dance, and theater. The contributors both disprove naysayers who believed black queer studies to be a passing trend and respond to critiques of the field's early U.S. bias. Deferring to the past while pointing to the future, No Tea, No Shade pushes black queer studies in new and exciting directions.Contributors. Jafari S. Allen, Marlon M. Bailey, Zachary Shane Kalish Blair, La Marr Jurelle Bruce, Cathy J. Cohen, Jennifer DeClue, Treva Ellison, Lyndon K. Gill, Kai M. Green, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Kwame Holmes, E. Patrick Johnson, Shaka McGlotten, Amber Jamilla Musser, Alison Reed, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, Tanya Saunders, C. Riley Snorton, Kaila Story, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Julia Roxanne Wallace, Kortney Ziegler

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Have you heard of 'tea polyphenol'? What is tea polyphenol like? Why does tea have so many benefits? It can be said that tea polyphenols are the soul of tea. The abundance of tea benefits is attributed to tea polyphenols. Through this book, the author expounds on the structure, properties, and healthcare functions of tea polyphenols.This book focuses on the properties and structural characteristics of tea polyphenols, and systematically describes the biological functions of tea polyphenols, especially the free radicals scavenging and antioxidant effects of tea polyphenols, regulation of oxidative stress, protection of nerve cells, anticancer effects, strengthening body immunity, preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, anti-inflammatory effects, reducing blood lipid and blood glucose atherosclerosis, myocardial protection, its role in Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, anti-aging properties, improving memory, anti-radiation effects, etc. The source and safety of tea polyphenols are also introduced.

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Tea has a rich and well-documented past. The beverage originated in Asia long before making its way to seventeenth-century London, where it became an exotic, highly sought-after commodity. Over the subsequent two centuries, tea’s powerful psychoactive properties seduced British society, becoming popular across the nation from castle to cottage. Now the world’s most popular drink, tea was one of the first truly global products to find a mass market, with tea drinking now stereotypically associated with British identity. The delicate flavour profile and hot preparation of tea inspired poets, artists and satirists. Tea was embroiled in controversy, from the gossip of the domestic tea table to the civil disorder occasioned by smuggling and the political scandal of the Boston Tea Party. Based on extensive original research, and now available in paperback, Empire of Tea provides a rich cultural history that explores how the British `way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world.

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A history of capitalism in nineteenth‑ and twentieth‑century China and India that explores the competition between their tea industries “Tea War is not only a detailed comparative history of the transformation of tea production in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but it also intervenes in larger debates about the nature of capitalism, global modernity, and global history.”— Alexander F. Day, Occidental College Tea remains the world’s most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, Andrew B. Liu challenges past economic histories premised on the technical “divergence” between the West and the Rest, arguing instead that seemingly traditional technologies and practices were central to modern capital accumulation across Asia. He shows how competitive pressures compelled Chinese merchants to adopt abstract industrial conceptions of time, while colonial planters in India pushed for labor indenture laws to support factory-style tea plantations. Characterizations of China and India as premodern backwaters, he explains, were themselves the historical result of new notions of political economy adopted by Chinese and Indian nationalists, who discovered that these abstract ideas corresponded to concrete social changes in their local surroundings. Together, these stories point toward a more flexible and globally oriented conceptualization of the history of capitalism in China and India.

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This is the greatest collection of tea and coffee pots, beverage sets, and hot water pots, made by the prolific Hall China Company ever displayed in a single volume! From the company's establishment in 1903 until today, Hall China, of East Liverpool, Ohio, has produced a vast array of innovative pots in forms and with decorations that kept up with the times. Many are displayed here among 845 beautiful color photos. Included are early gold and platinum decorations; the "Art Deco," "Novelty," "Victorian," and Brilliant series; early decals; Gold Label; 1960s decorations; special shapes made for various companies including Lipton Tea, McCormick Tea, and others; and designs by renowned artist Eva Zeisel. The informative text includes vessel shapes, sizes, colors, and historical information, along with a detailed bibliography, a Names Cross Reference, and values in the captions.

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What is the role of quality in contemporary capitalism? How is a product as ordinary as a bag of tea judged for its quality? In her innovative study, Sarah Besky addresses these questions by going inside an Indian auction house where experts taste and appraise mass-market black tea, one of the world’s most recognized commodities. Pairing rich historical data with ethnographic research among agronomists, professional tea tasters and traders, and tea plantation workers, Besky shows how the meaning of quality has been subjected to nearly constant experimentation and debate throughout the history of the tea industry. Working across fields of political economy, science and technology studies, and sensory ethnography, Tasting Qualities argues for an approach to quality that sees it not as a final destination for economic, imperial, or post-imperial projects but as an opening for those projects.

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The tea ceremony persists as one of the most evocative symbols of Japan. Originally a pastime of elite warriors in premodern society, it was later recast as an emblem of the modern Japanese state, only to be transformed again into its current incarnation, largely the hobby of middle-class housewives. How does the cultural practice of a few come to represent a nation as a whole? Although few non-Japanese scholars have peered behind the walls of a tea room, sociologist Kristin Surak came to know the inner workings of the tea world over the course of ten years of tea training. Here she offers the first comprehensive analysis of the practice that includes new material on its historical changes, a detailed excavation of its institutional organization, and a careful examination of what she terms "nation-work"—the labor that connects the national meanings of a cultural practice and the actual experience and enactment of it. She concludes by placing tea ceremony in comparative perspective, drawing on other expressions of nation-work, such as gymnastics and music, in Europe and Asia. Taking readers on a rare journey into the elusive world of tea ceremony, Surak offers an insightful account of the fundamental processes of modernity—the work of making nations.

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A brilliant new interactive gift book featuring Judith Kerr’s beloved story, The Tiger Who Came to Tea! Featuring Judith Kerr’s best-loved story, The Tiger Who Came To Tea, this brilliant jigsaw book enables young readers to get closer than ever to this timeless tale. Containing six 12-piece jigsaw puzzles accompanied by the complete story, celebrate the magic of teatime anew with this exciting interactive gift book. Read the story, complete the puzzles and enjoy these classic illustrations again and again. Bound to keep even the tiniest tigers busy!

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It is said that 'an army marches on its stomach,' but histories of the First World War usually concentrate on its political and military aspects. The gargantuan task of keeping the British Expeditionary Force fed and watered is often overlooked, yet without adequate provision the soldiers would never have been able to fight. Tommy couldn't get enough tea, rum or fags, yet his commanders sent him bully beef and dog biscuits. But it was amazing how 2 million men did not usually go short of nourishment, although parcels from home, canteens and estaminets had a lot to do with that. Incredibly, Tommy could be in a civilised town supping, beer, wine, egg and chips, and a few hours later making do with bully beef in a water-filled trench. Alan Weeks examines how the army got its food and drink and what it was like.

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Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

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A beautifully illustrated collection of first recipes and family stories by Kate-Greenaway winning author, Shirley Hughes.This classic collection of easy-to-follow recipes, inspired by everyday family adventures, is the perfect introduction to cookery for first readers. From making pancakes with Dad, baking apples after the Saturday shopping or even icing a birthday cake for Mum, this sumptuously illustrated recipe book gives a gentle insight into the joy of cooking together.

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Ambrose Feeney has seen his hopes and ambitions dashed by others' influence and his own inertia. His Limerick is an old siege city of walls, both real and psychological. As Ambrose descends into lunacy he paints a starkly sane portrait of one family's life in an Ireland unsoftened by the mists of legend. The Life and Times of a Teaboy begins with the recollection of a Christmas past and ends with the entrance of the principal character into a lunatic asylum; a crisis in personal growth that mirrors the nation's. 'He is one of the most exciting talents to have emerged not only from Ireland but anywhere in recent decades' The Times

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Hola, som les Tea Sisters!Segur que ja ens coneixeu, oi? Estudiem a la Universitat de Ratford i ens encanten les aventures i els misteris!Ara que el curs ja s?acaba i les vacances són a tocar, què us semblaria acompanyar-nos en una nova missió?Amb Missió Vacances passarem un estiu divertidíssim i viurem aventures trepidants!El quadern inclou illustracions a color, fragments de les nostres aventures i un espai fi nal en què podreu reflectir tot allò que us passi durant vacances i que vulgueu guardar de record.Una manera de divertir-vos alhora que treballeu totes les assignatures de l?escola. Segur que passeu un estiu molt emocionant!

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British writer and tea historian Jane Pettigrew has joined forces again with American tea writer Bruce Richardson to chronicle the fascinating story of tea’s influence on British and American culture, commerce and community spanning nearly four centuries. These two leading tea professionals have seen first-hand the current tea renaissance sweeping modern culture and have written over two dozen books on the subject of tea, including The New Tea Companion. No beverage has shaped Western civilization more than the ancient elixir - tea.Follow tea's amazing journey from Canton to London, Boston and beyond as these two leaders of today's tea renaissance weave a fascinating story detailing how the leaves of a simple Asian plant shaped the culture and politics of both the United Kingdom and the United States.CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTSTHE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: First Tea in England * East India Company * America’s Thirst for Tea * Tea Jars & CaddiesTHE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: Teas for Sale * Tea Smuggling * Tea Etiquette * Liberty Tea * Boston Tea PartyTHE NINETEENTH CENTURY: An Empire Built on Tea * Jane Austen’s Tea Things * Afternoon Tea * Glasgow Tea Movement * Tea & SuffrageTHE TWENTIETH CENTURY: Teabags * The Tea Room Movement * Wartime Tea * Rise of American Tea Brands * Tea Dances * Specialty Tea THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY The American Teasmith * Tea & Health * The Starbucks Effect * Culinary Tea

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Explore the artistry of Japanese tea from buds to brew in this comprehensive illustrated guide to the tea industry that includes the Japanese growers, their craft of tea making, and how the tradition of tea has had an influence on cuisine, art, design, and health. This visual exploration of one of the world’s most popular beverages tells the stories of tea and tea making in Japan: how it is grown, harvested, and dried, as well as how it is prepared and enjoyed. Through interviews with tea growers, information on health benefits from Dr. Andrew Weil, and amazing recipes from chefs David Bouley, Hirohisa, and Cesar Ramirez, you will discover all there is to know about Japanese tea. This perfect gift for tea lovers shares the stories of tea from its origins to the present, packaged in a beautiful photographic book compiled by Zach Mangan, the founder of Kettl, a New York City- and Fukuoka-based tea and teaware company.

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A visual history of tea towel design, from the 1950s to today. Both practical and beautiful, the tea towel has over the last century established itself firmly as an essential piece of domestic design. This lavishly illustrated book explores 100 of the best tea towel designs from the 1950s to today. Featured are tea towels from well-known textile designers such as Lucienne Day, Emma Bridgewater, Pat Albeck, Cath Kidston, Orla Kiely and Angela Harding, as well as collectable tea towels from key retail stores such as Heal's and Selfridges. Together they showcase a rich visual history of textiles and homeware design of the last century. With full-page images and close-up details, The Art of The Tea Towel will appeal to those interested in both textile design and homeware.

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The Edwardian era was the golden age of etiquette and gentility, and the taking of tea was rather like a ceremonial masquerade. At this time, it was not uncommon for ladies to change up to five times a day, and one of their outfits would have been a tea dress. Tea was the only time the mistress of the house would serve her guests; the china used, the manservant who answered the door and the delicacies presented were of paramount importance. In this beautifully illustrated book, Vicky Straker invites us to tea in the Edwardian era and serves it up with over thirty of her own delicious contemporary recipes. Also included are chapters on dress, etiquette and the servants who prepared the tea. The First World War, the Temperance Association and changes in domestic service each had their effect on the rise in fashion of afternoon tea, as well as its eventual demise. This book explores why tea was so important for the Edwardians in a world of flourishing aspirations and how it became so popular across all social classes. After all, who among us has not found comfort in a good cup of tea and its scrumptious accompaniments?

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Enjoy a cup of tea and a slice of cake with Britain's favourite novelist Inspired by the novels and letters of Jane Austen, this collection of cakes, bakes and pastries is based on authentic recipes from the Regency era, which have been fully updated for modern-day cooks. In Jane Austen's day, tea and cakes were usually served after dinner, or to evening guests, but these rolls, buns, tarts, and biscuits will be equally welcome at breakfast, with mid-morning coffee, or for afternoon tea. Recipes featured in the book include: English Muffins, based on the muffins served with after-dinner tea in 'Pride and Prejudice'; Buttered Apple Tart as offered by Mr. Woodhouse to Miss Bates in 'Emma'; and Jumbles, inspired by the biscuits enjoyed by Fanny in 'Mansfield Park'. From Plum Cake and Gingerbread to Ratafia Cakes and Sally Lunns 'Tea with Jane Austen' has all the recipes you need to create the finest tea time treats, and the original recipes are given alongside, so you can compare them and appreciate modern time-savers such as icing sugar, dried yeast and electric mixers all the more!

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Beyond nostalgic tea industry ads romanticizing colonial Ceylon and the impoverished conditions that beleaguer Tamil tea workers are the stories of the women, men, and children who have built their families and lives in line houses on tea plantations since the nineteenth century. The tea industry’s economic crisis and Sri Lanka's twenty-six year long civil war have ushered in changes to life and work on the plantations, where family members now migrate from plucking tea to performing domestic work in the capital city of Colombo or farther afield in the Middle East. Using feminist ethnographic methods in research that spans the transitional time between 2008 and 2017, Mythri Jegathesan presents the lived experience of these women and men working in agricultural, migrant, and intimate labor sectors. In Tea and Solidarity, Jegathesan seeks to expand anthropological understandings of dispossession, drawing attention to the political significance of gender as a key feature in investment and place making in Sri Lanka specifically, and South Asia more broadly. This vivid and engaging ethnography sheds light on an otherwise marginalized and often invisible minority whose labor and collective heritage of dispossession as “coolies” in colonial Ceylon are central to Sri Lanka’s global recognition, economic growth, and history as a postcolonial nation.

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Freshly updated and expanded, the third edition of The New Tea Companion offers students of tea the most up-to-date details and images of over a hundred teas from the world's most famous tea-producing regions, including China, India, Sri Lanka, Kenya and Japan, as well as from countries lesser-known for tea cultivation, such as Australia and South Korea. Each entry contains an illuminating descripton of the tea's character, taste, and apperarance along with essential tips for proper steeping.Brimming with rich photographs and illustrations, this classic reference book - used by tea purveyors worldwide - covers the ancient origins of tea to the modern tea renaissance in Europe and America. These two respected authors guide you to the best Darjeelings, classic Chinese greens, and captivating artisanal teas from tea masters wround the world.Official textbook for the Canadian Tea Sommelier Certification courses.

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There are few customs as quintessentially English as afternoon tea. From being the preserve of the privileged classes, to the universally enjoyed and infinitely varied occasion that it is today, afternoon tea is loved and appreciated all over the world. In Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee year, it seems fitting that a tradition which was popularised by a previous queen of England and a duchess should be celebrated with the publication of a wonderful new book on the subject. In 'Please pass the scones: a social history of English afternoon tea', social historian and author Gillian Perry takes us on a highly entertaining whistle-stop tour, enhanced by many luscious illustrations to make you salivate, and to bring forth your own wonderful memories. The book covers many aspects of the afternoon tea story, including its origins, etiquette, dress codes, and the rise and fall of once essential tea table features such as the slop bowl and the paper doily. The precise elements that make up an afternoon tea may vary – fine crockery, silver spoons, a traditional three-tiered cake stand or a thoroughly modern alternative, delicate sandwiches, party themes, miniature sweets, fizz. But there are two things that cannot be omitted: a steaming pot of the flavoursome liquid that all the delicious edible treats pivot around, and a fresh, scrumptious scone. How do you make the optimum cup of tea? What height should the perfect filled scone be, and is it jam or cream first? What is the tea-related origin of the expression ‘the dregs of society’? Why were tea gowns frowned upon in Victorian society? Gillian Perry answers these and hundreds of other questions in a story that involves smuggling and scandal as much as refinement and high society. Her style is readable, amusing and informative, in this beautifully produced, unique book that will be a perfect gift for someone special in Platinum Jubilee year.

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