June 2024 – Apricot Afternoon Tea Menu: In Celebration of the Brief, Delicious Apricot Season and Fathers
Fruit lovers, we must seize the day: apricot season is so very short and so very easy to miss. This year, let it not happen to you by planning a summer trip to an apricot orchard near you. Luckily, as I mentioned in my apricot teaser last December, I found For the Love of Apricots website. The […]
The Sharing Tea Boutique
Rose and Webmaster Wayne have had a wonderful idea, and I am fully onboard. We are happy to announce a fun and useful addition to The Tea Book on our website: Sharing Tea: The Road Back to Civilization. We are thrilled to initiate the Sharing Tea Boutique, an opportunity for our readers to order Afternoon Tea, Art, and Poetry related […]
From the Warm Kitchen, The Spicy Scent of Sambar Floats out to the Beach.
My oldest first cousin, Jane Murdock Snaidas, a devoted home cook with vegan tendencies, also shared Misa’s disdain for cheese. When Jane came to visit us in California for one of our family reunions, she was horrified by the amount of cheese that appears on restaurant menus in the Golden State. When I pointed out […]
October 2024 – Embracing Autumn: Cheese, Please!
As October arrives, I find myself musing like Hamlet, though my thoughts are not on life and death but on the big culinary question of the season: “To cheese or not to cheese.” My late mother-in-law, Misae Higashi, an excellent home cook who grew up in Japan, once told me in complete seriousness, “Cheese is […]
