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Tea and Sympathy: Anita Naughton: Books. In its original incarnation, Manhattan's Tea & Sympathy was a hole-in-the-wall outpost for British food and drink, authentic down to its steak and Guinness pie and bracing quantities of cuppa. Tea & Sympathy presents more than 60 recipes from the teashop, provided by its owner Nicola Perry, as well as a house chronicle, the work of ex-T&S waitress Anita Naughton. Whether relaying customer eccentricity (Please help me get fat, only I don't have any money, wails a soon-to-be regular), general staff randiness (seeing a repairman lying captivatingly beneath a cappuccino machine, waitress Carol offers, It might be easier if you take your trousers off), celebrity sightings (I carried the Dalai Lama's afternoon tea, says the author breathlessly), or the seat-of-the-pants business of the daily round (Hangovers are now banned, posts owner Nicky in a staff memo to which one waitress replies, Are you going to put it in the menu?), Naughton's narrative is both hilarious and poignant, in ways that often catch the reader by surprise. Though the recipes offer exemplary, easily done versions of such fare as bubble and squeak, kedgeree, and sticky toffee pudding, it's Naughton's saucy day-in-the-life narrative that makes the book a should-read.
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
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