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Tea & Crumpets

Recipes and Rituals from Tearooms & Cafés By Margaret M. Johnson
Photographs by Leigh Beisch
and Margaret M. Johnson

7 x 8 in; 168 pp ; 50 color photographs
Hardcover
Published in April, 2009
ISBN 9780811862141
ISBN10 0811862143

$19.95  

Tea & Crumpets -- Curious armchair travelers, nostalgic food excursionists, and inventive home entertainers will adore this tour of Europe's legendary tearooms and salons. A delicious culinary and cultural experience as well as a treasure trove of recipes from top-notch destinations, this little gem lets readers in on the rituals of taking tea. Recipes like the Ritz's cucumber sandwiches, Claridge's famous raisin and apple scones, or chocolate scones from Edinburgh's Balmoral Hotel, as well as color photographs of tasty tea fare and European teahouses, bring the charm of afternoon tea to anyone's home.

Margaret M. Johnson is a noted cookbook author and journalist. Although her ancestral home is Ireland, she lives in New York.

Leigh Beisch is a San Francisco-based photographer.