Southern Teatime Pleasures: Simple Ideas and Recipes from Author Alda Ellis


As we continue to celebrate National Poetry Month, the Tea & Poetry Book Club would like to add another recommended book to your good reads. Bestselling author and popular speaker Alda Ellis invites all who love fine food, dear friends, and happy celebrations to tea--Southern style! Photographer Julie Johnson's fresh, full-color photographs, shot on location at Alda's beautiful and historical farm, Magnolia Hill, add wonderful detail to this lovely collection of seven easy-to-host tea parties.

Each party includes a delicious menu with easy-to-follow recipes, tips on how to choose, arrange, and display flowers, and helpful instructions to make eye-catching table settings. Here is everything anyone needs to know about hospitality and entertaining. From the novice to the experienced Southern belle, everyone will find new, fun reasons to put the kettle on, take down the china cups, and set the table for tea.

Alda Ellis is the creator of Alda’s Sentimental Living, a highly successful business featuring an innovative line of decorative soaps, candles, bath and body products, and home décor. Her books include The Gentle Art of Hospitality and Velvet Noses (a charming book about horses).

Julie Johnson built a reputation for quality and creative innovation as a photographer. Since establishing her business in 2001, her award-winning work has grown to include studio and on-site portraiture, wedding photojournalism, and four published books, Welcome to Our Table, Prayers for My Baby Girl, Prayers for My Baby Boy, and Southern Teatime Pleasures. You can find Alda's book on Amazon.com for $11.18. Several recommended serving Peach Herbal Tea with this collection of poetry.

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