Uno Hermano and William Leigh
Monday, December 1st, 2008
Last week I worked hard. On Thursday I did 10 solid hours in-store tasting at Waitrose. Rushing across town was my only break but it was as exhilarating as it was exhausting.
The people at Waitrose were incredibly kind, helpful and encouraging. The customers were really appreciative that I bothered to be there myself; but not half as appreciative as I was when they took armfuls of my tea off the shelves.
By Friday my feet were sore and I was ready to sit down but never tired of tea. Even after a week of tasting I could still think of no better treat - so I invited the food-writers William Leigh and Simon Mujumdar (one of the celebrated Dos Hermanos) over to my place for … well, yes tea.
Simon and William wrote about it far more eloquently than I could on their blogs:
Dos Hermanos
The Boy Done Food
(forgive me Simon, for stealing the photo).
There is little I enjoy more than taking tea with people but it’s deeply pleasurable to make tea for people who are so fascinated by flavour and brimming over with ideas. William is making Panna Cotta with my jasmine silver tips and we have hatched a plan to pair teas with curries and create deliciously indulgent tea-cocktails.