Take a colorful journey into 22 glorious tea rooms across the United States and Canada. From palatial hotels to grand gardens and nostalgic English-style cottages, this collection of photographs, narratives and recipes dispels the idea that only the British know who to do a "proper afternoon tea."

Tea Room Tales & Tidbits is an enchanting collection of stories and recipes that have been gathered while operating the Ivy Tea Room and Craft Studio. In this book, you will find all of the recipes that made the tearoom famous. Even our coveted Scones with Cream and Jam is included! You will find an assortment of entertaining stories that detail how the tearoom came to be and many of the oddities encountered while running it. Numerous ghost stories are revealed within these pages, as the century home has had many visitors over the years. Tamara hopes you enjoy this much-anticipated book and relive some of the food and stories she has created and experienced.

Part travel book, part cookbook, the author searches Great Britain for the best tea rooms, looking for the best food, great tea, and fine ambiance.A unique book. There are no books of this type, even in England. This is the first photographic collection on this subject - and the recipes have never been printed before.

Miss Ivy's Tea Room has a quilt of characters, each with a story of adversity. They find solace in a hot cup of tea within the warm atmosphere of a tea room operated by the proprietor, Ms. Julia Horne. The beautiful Ms. Horne also has a story; born to Jamaican immigrants, she strives to accomplish the American dream through feminism, assimilation, and love. Her daughter Victoria Horne, a young, corporate executive is living the American Dream with resentment. At the tea room, Julia meets new and fascinating people; the one thing Julia and Victoria never expected to find in the tea room is love. Enter Charles Blackman, a former professional basketball player turned entrepreneur and Mason Green, a famous Broadway and television actor, each embrace the unexpected during turning points in their lives.

The York Tea Room is an Edwardian-style teahouse located in Sonoma County, the heart of California’s fabled wine country. It is owned by three generations of York women: Hazel, Emma, and Lucille. In this elegant locale, no one would ever expect murder, but a dramatic murder occurs nonetheless, sending a wave of shock washing over the tight-knit community. The York tea ladies step in to solve the mystery and save their business. In the classic manner of cozy English mysteries, Murder at the York Tea Room brings the genre to a new location with all the intrigue and ambiance of its very British sister works, as three strong, memorable women become the focal point of murder, intrigue, and local secrets.

Features 25 varied walks in Mid Wales, stretching from the foothills of southern Snowdonia to the fascinating spa towns of Powys and the spectacular Ceredigion coast - ranging from 2 to 9 miles, suitable for all ages and experience. This guide offers directions accompanied by sketch maps, photographs and notes on local history and wildlife.

In addition to the basic information concerning routes and tea shops, this guide includes appropriate notes on the landscape, local social and industrial history, interesting features on each walk, and the facilities available for visitors.

The Cotswolds, the Chilterns, the Thames Valley and even a small share of the Wessex Downs - all these are to be found in Oxfordshire. This book presents a selection of 25 walks which explore various different facets of this varied county, and include the additional pleasure of a stop for afternoon tea.

An illuminating account of how history shapes our diets-now revised and updated Why did the ancient Romans believe cinnamon grew in swamps guarded by giant killer bats? How did the African cultures imported by slavery influence cooking in the American South? What does the 700-seat McDonald's in Beijing serve in the age of globalization? With the answers to these and many more such questions, Cuisine and Culture, Second Edition presents an engaging, informative, and witty narrative of the interactions among history, culture, and food. From prehistory and the earliest societies around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers to today's celebrity chefs, Cuisine and Culture, Second Edition presents a multicultural and multiethnic approach that draws connections between major historical events and how and why these events affected and defined the culinary traditions of different societies. Fully revised and updated, this Second Edition offers new and expanded features and coverage, including: New Crossing Cultures sections providing brief sketches of foods and food customs moving between cultures More holiday histories, food fables, and food chronologies Discussions of food in the Byzantine, Portuguese, Turkish/Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires Greater coverage of the scientific genetic modification of food, from Mendel in the 19th century to the contemporary GM vs. organic food debate Speculation on the future of food And much more! Complete with sample recipes and menus, as well as revealing photographs and illustrations, Cuisine and Culture, Second Edition is the essential survey history for students of food history.