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My sister came across an interesting gift tea last month called Winter Book, volume II.

It comes in a tin shaped like an old leather-bound volume with a snowy Russian castle scene on the cover. Inside is a zip-lock bag containing Ceylon tea beautified with petals of safflower, marigold, and sunflower, and flavored with papaya and “Christmas holy night flavour” (which tastes like cinnamon, Sri Lanka’s other high quantity edible export).

Come next winter I shall be on the lookout for volume III.

Roland Petrov