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Book ReviewsTea and Sympathy: The Life of an English Tea Shop in New York |
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Book: Tea and Sympathy: The Life of an English Tea Shop in New York
Written by: Anita Naughton Nicola Perry |
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
Average Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5
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Long on behind-the-scenes, short on recipes
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2 / 5
This book is suitable for a relatively small group of folks who perhaps have been to this shop and would like to know the story of the people who work there. The amount of recipes in this book is very small compared to the amount of pages devoted to the people who own/work/etc. in the shop. If you're looking for tea-related recipes, look elsewhere.
Tasty Tea Tome
Rating:
5 / 5
I like this book at lot. I've eaten about one page a day with my morning cuppa and so far it tastes great.
the perfect Christmas gift!
Rating:
5 / 5
This is far more than a cookbook -- in fact, calling it a cookbook is like calling 'Moby Dick' a fishing story. Every recipe is preluded by a hilarious anecdotal story about the author's life in New York as a waitress trying to 'make it,' and these tales create a marvelously entertaining narrative thread. The vignettes of customers are wickedly funny -- Naughton has an eye for skewering the pretentions of New Yorkers, both native and Anglo. Many of the tales are delightfully ribald -- a cross between Seinfeld and Sex and the City. A great present for the Christmas season -- the recipes suit the weather, and the stories are worth reading aloud on the long winter nights!
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