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Just for the month of December…
…the annual Nutcracker Tea at Mandarin Oriental New York. Today, a table for three. Drinking Ceylon blended with roses…
…and a cocktail of rum, cardamom, lime, and lemongrass. Just because.
With the afternoon tea revamp, the scones, savories, and sweets are delivered as separate courses. First, warm ginger scones…
…with orange marmalade and housemade cranberry jam…
…and whipped clotted cream.
And then sandwiches!
Many of the sandwiches overlap with the classic tea, so no worries if you can’t make it in December…
…but you have to until the following December for these sweets.
Eggnog panna cotta
Linzer star cookies
Boozy fruitcake
Coconut-spiced chocolate snowball
Caramel toasted pecan pie. Till next time ^-^
This time of year, I think of “Oh my? It’s fruitcake weather!” — one of the memorable lines in Truman Capote’s wonderfully incisive portrait of his alter ego Buddy’s time in the South baking with his eccentric cousin Sook in “A Christmas Memory.” However, reading the story sets me to … Continue reading
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We’re going back into the archives to revisit these classic posts by James Norwood Pratt. This post includes “China Black”, “Keemun – Splendor of Flavor and Perfume”, and “Yunnan – Among the Grandest of the World’s Black Teas”. We have added a link to the end of each one to … Continue reading
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