The Afternoon Tea Cookbook Author:Linda Hewitt This is a cookbook, that one form of prose Joseph Conrad held to be above suspicion because its sole purpose is the enhancement of life. It is, specifically, a book about tea, "the muse's nectar," about how it became the most popular drink in the world save water, and about tea drinking's evolution into afternoon tea--that small meal, the one a... more »ll the more satisfying because it is not essential to either the culinary or the social scheme of things.« less