Afternoon tea is the height of fashion, with chic hotels and restaurants offering elegant or quirky themed menus. Highly rated New York venues include Lady Mendl's Tea Salon, The Inn at Irving Place, often deemed the best and most romantic tea salon in NYC, The Russian Tea Room, Astor Court at the St. Regis Hotel and Alice's Tea Cup. The ideal affordable but elegant gift book for discerning home bakers and party hosts and hostesses. Includes the now infamous Duffin, which was invented by Bea in 2011, but trademarked by Starbucks in 2013, leading to #Duffingate trending on Twitter.