Nicey

An invaluable guide to one of life's great cornerstones. It elucidates some of the great mysteries of tea, for instance why tea from dark-coloured mugs never tastes right, and points out others which are forever unsolvable, such as why emergency services tea always tastes glorious.

But despite the title, with its emphasis on the life-giving beverage, the great triumph of this book is the Venn Diagram of Biscuits. I firmly believe this should be available as a poster for the kitchen, and show more ideally also an apron. I for one would do more cooking if it were! show less

I really liked this book. I found it interesting because it is cataloguing and categorising bickies. Look at Darwin's tree of life, or a library shelf. Although I have a long, strong love of all things biscuit I do think that I liked the book because I REALLY love organising. Is that wrong?

Turns out that there is almost no new tea information here, such as brand differences, but very detailed info on various British biscuits, including pics. Finally, I now know what a Jaffa Cake is. The author stretches the book out a few more pages than he should by adding little essays about the discomfort of riding on a coach bus or train, and his many digs makes it clear he disdains Americans, which can be annoying, not funny, when you just wanted to read about tea and biscuits. The show more biscuit info is very thorough though. show less

As an immigrant to the UK, I bought this book dirt cheap at some outlet mall in Wales. It turned out to be one of the best book purchases I made! I only wish I had bought it when I first moved to the UK, so I could get a better handle on:
*tea drinking
*biscuits and their histories
*sit downs
*British humour

After letting out many hearty belly laughs, I had to run down to my local Tesco Metro and buy every type of british biscuit I could that I hadn't tried. Yum! My mother-in-law thought I was show more nuts. (She's probably right.)

BTW, the book derives from the cute website, http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/,

``Home for Tea and Biscuits" show less