{"id":843,"date":"2016-10-27T08:33:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T12:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=843"},"modified":"2016-10-27T08:33:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T12:33:25","slug":"in-celebration-of-tea-and-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"In celebration of tea &#8230; and books!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the cool autumn wind blows over our island community, what better time than to curl up with a great book and a cup of tea? Several years ago I showcased my tea pot and tea cup collection at the Long Island Community Library, along with a list of some of my favorite tea books, which I will share below. What are some of your favorite books about tea?<a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/MHS-tea-party.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-844\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-844\" src=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/MHS-tea-party.jpg\" alt=\"mhs-tea-party\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/MHS-tea-party.jpg 550w, https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/MHS-tea-party-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The book of tea \/ preface by Anthony Burgess. Flammarion, 2005.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Barnes, Emilie. If teacups could talk : sharing a cup of kindness with <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>treasured friends. Eugene, Oregon : Harvest House Publishers, 1994.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>O&#8217;Connor, Sharon. Afternoon tea serenade : recipes from famous tea rooms, classical chamber music. Emeryville, Ca. : Menus and Music Productions, Inc., 1997.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Rubin, Ron. Tea Chings : the tea and herb companion : appreciating the <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>varietals and virtues of fine tea and herbs \/ Ron Rubin and Stuart Avery <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Gold. New York : Newmarket Press, 2002.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Smith, Michael. The afternoon tea book. New York : Macmillan Publishing Company, 1986.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Siegal, Helene. The totally teatime cookbook \/ by Helen Siegal and Karen <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Gillingham. Berkeley, Ca. : Celestial Arts, 1995<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the cool autumn wind blows over our island community, what better time than to curl up with a great book and a cup of tea? Several years ago I showcased my tea pot and tea cup collection at the Long Island Community Library, along with a list of some of my favorite tea books, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=843\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In celebration of tea &#8230; and books!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[374,215,327,373],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-afternoon-tea","tag-books-2","tag-tea","tag-tea-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}