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Summary: Shocks and Giggles all day long.
Review: As a regular customer of "Tea & Sympathy" I found it a great joy to get behind the scenes and find out what really goes on in the tiny space which I have grown to love so much. The story told by author Anita Naughton is always full of enjoyable stories and comical situations that the girls frequently find themselves in.
The recipes that Nicola Perry has at long last revealaed are easy to follow and produce great results.All in all a great idea for any Anglophile or budding Jamie Oliver.
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Summary: Shocks and Giggles all day long.
Review: As a regular customer of "Tea & Sympathy" I found it a great joy to get behind the scenes and find out what really goes on in the tiny space which I have grown to love so much. The story told by author Anita Naughton is always full of enjoyable stories and comical situations that the girls frequently find themselves in.
The recipes that Nicola Perry has at long last revealaed are easy to follow and produce great results. All in all a great idea for any Anglophile or budding Jamie Oliver.
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Summary: This is the real thing!
Review: I have been going to Tea & Sympathy for almost as long as it has been open and this book really captures the feel of the place. Aside from all of the recipes I have been dying to have for years, I now feel privy to the repartee I always knew existed between the people who work there. What a joy! Now I can make the English food I have come to love myself AND when I go to the shop I am in the loop! If you have never been to T&S this is certainly the next best thing.
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Summary: Tasty Tea Tome
Review: I like this book at lot. I've eaten about one page a day with my morning cuppa and so far it tastes great.
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Summary: Long on behind-the-scenes, short on recipes
Review: 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.
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Summary: the perfect Christmas gift!
Review: 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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