Vintage Tea Rooms
Books about tea rooms -- and more
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Praise for Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn"Looking for something more rewarding than reading tea leaves but just as much fun? Dip into Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn. ... The book is both informative and clear-eyed, and leavened with wonderful illustrations." House & Garden "Enlightenment – wondrous revelation, in fact – has come in the shape of Jan Whitaker’s Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn: A Social History of the Tea Room Craze in America. Here is a real contribution to social history ..." Katherine A. Powers, Boston Sunday Globe "Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn (there was one, incidentally), is such a good read – informative, enlightening, and often amusing. ... a superb job on the research, ... will stand as a great reference tool. The excellent illustrations and photographs perfectly complement her text." Ian Marlowe, Tea: A Magazine "Filled with wonderful illustrations depicting signs, menus, and art from the 1920s." Deb Tomaselli, Book Sense 76 "Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn is a beautiful, complete, educational and entertaining work. It would be a great reading-group title as well, offering a chance to study a well-written piece of work, learn more about our business heritage, remember our own experiences in tea rooms we maybe didn't even know were tea rooms, and devour the fabulous illustrations." Diana Krauth, Pioneer Valley Women's Times "... handles the scholarship lightly, often with humor, suggesting how social history, and more specifically, women’s history, interacts with commercial potential." Claire Hopley, The Bolton Common "Whitaker conducts a delightful tour of the tearooms that dotted the nation in the first half of the twentieth century. ... Readers will relish this irresistible slice of American popular culture." Margaret Flanagan, Booklist "It's a beautifully illustrated history of the tea room, and a fun read for anyone interested in roadside culture." B.J. Roche, Boston Sunday Globe "Writing with charm and grace so appropriate to her subject, Jan Whitaker puts this curious culinary phenomenon into a social context. Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn is a joy to read and to look at – what beguiling vintage illustrations!" Jane and Michael Stern, authors of Roadfood |
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