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| GUEST – Tea Book Club founder Kyle Whittington

| FEATURE INTRO – Pairing tea with food is a less well-known art than wine pairings, but every bit as rewarding for cooks and connoisseurs. This week, Tea Book Club founder Kyle Whittington reviews Mariella Erken's cookbook, Tea: Wine’s Sober Sibling.

| REVIEW – TEA: Wine’s Sober Sibling by Mariella Erken

Rich with detailed analysis and mouth-watering recipes, the considerate arrangement of this book draws us in from a place more familiar, the pairing of wine with food. Indeed, the comparison tables on tea and grape varieties were so enriching that I realized that as a wine novice, I could choose a wine based on my tea preferences. If that’s got me excited, then for sure, it works the other way around. Seventy recipes, each with three suggested pairings, make this a book equally worthy of a place on our tea bookshelf as among the cookery books in the kitchen.