Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 11:49 am
I thought about putting this in the Tea Books thread, but it does not seem to meet the requirements, as it is a book primarily about tea-biscuits. It also doesn't quite fit in the tea recipes book thread, as it is a book about eating biscuits rather than making them. I keep coming back to it because it is the only book on this subject I have ever found, outlining, reviewing, and describing the various kinds of British tea-biscuits.
That the book was written at all is a bit of a quirk, as the people I guess would be most intrigued by a book on British tea-biscuits are foreigners (me) who don't have the same biscuit-access, while I imagine most Brits would consider a book on the subject as odd as an American writing a book contrasting and comparing Fruity Pebbles to Grape Nuts. So it is written kind of as a joke, which shows.
It started as an outgrowth of a website: http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com
The website started in 2002 also as a joke, as far as I can tell, and was last updated in 2008. Still, quite educational.
That the book was written at all is a bit of a quirk, as the people I guess would be most intrigued by a book on British tea-biscuits are foreigners (me) who don't have the same biscuit-access, while I imagine most Brits would consider a book on the subject as odd as an American writing a book contrasting and comparing Fruity Pebbles to Grape Nuts. So it is written kind of as a joke, which shows.
It started as an outgrowth of a website: http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com
The website started in 2002 also as a joke, as far as I can tell, and was last updated in 2008. Still, quite educational.