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Steeped in the World of Tea

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Collaboratively compiled and edited by the team of Sharon Bard, Birgit Nielsen, and Clara Rosemarda, Steeped In The World Of Tea is illustrated with the wonderful color photography of Juliana Spear. This compendium is a literary anthology about the world's most popular drink and spans the globe from Russia, Japan, and Kenya, to Palestine, Germany, and Sumatra. Here presented are recipes for Moroccan mint tea, the perfect Indian chai, Chinese fertility tea, and so much more. Presented are stories of a tea picnic in the Himalayas, to World War II POWs drinking English tea over chess in a Sumatran jungle. Steeped In The World Of Tea is enthusiastically entertaining reading -- especially for anyone who has enjoyed sipping on a cup of tea in pleasant solitude or a warm engagement with friends.

I contributed to this anthology several years ago. Took the book off my shelf to reread and found I liked it better, with distance and being past my bashfulness at being one of the contributors! I can recommend it unashamedly. It is a gorgeous book, a lovely holiday present, a gentle collection of well-written reflections by a diverse group of writers, each of whom love tea for different and honest reasons. My piece on page 119 is called "Passage," and it chronicles in brief memories intertwined with the drinking and serving of tea the passage from childhood in Santiago, Chile, to adulthood as an immigrant to the U.S. in the 1960s; coming out as a lesbian in the 70s and losing my child to the courts, a sorrowful sojourn in Boston, and a tranquil emergence in New York City in the 80s where I have lived, loved, written, and savored life ever since.