Saturday, January 5, 2013

lampedusa and some blood oranges

I had a cup of Rare Tea Cellar's Sicilian Blood Orange Green over the holidays and really loved it, and this is something because I'm not a big fan of green tea.  When I think of Sicily in literature I think of Giuseppe di Lampedusa's classic The Leopard, a complex and fascinating novel about that Italian region circa 1860, as the old ways of aristocratic life give way to the upheavals of the Risorgimiento.  The Leopard seems like a fine match for Rare Tea Cellar's Sicilian Blood Orange Green, pairing a book you can lose yourself in with a tea you'll want to sip slowly and surely enjoy more than one refill of.