Royal Teas with Grace and Style

If you know me, you know that I love to host Tea Parties. One of my latest reads, Royal Teas with Grace and Style, is an absolute Have to Have, GO TO book, if you want to impress your guests with proper tea. Author and tea enthusiast, Eileen Shafer, is the former proprietor of  charming teashops with locations in several historic river towns.Thom Rouse is the award winning photographer of ROYAL TEAS, and with Anna Griffin's design of this exquisite book jacket, all working together produced by Dorrance Publishing this incredibly informative and  lovely book is impressive enough to grace your end or coffee table.

Of course, this book begins with a brief history of tea, but soon moves on to how to prepare tea, the proper way of serving tea, tea etiquette and manners, what the proper attire is to wear to tea  and even includes menus complete with recipes.

I would recommend this stunning book as the perfect gift for anyone regardless of age (my granddaughter started having tea parties with me when she was 3 and I've given tea parties for ladies in their 90's) that would be interested in slowing down and enjoying the ceremony know as tea. As William Gladstone, British Prime Minister (1865) is noted for saying, "If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are too heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are too excited, it will calm you".

I received a free copy of this book from  Dorrance Publishing in exchange for a honest review. All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.