Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry

Known for her all-female kitchen at London’s Darjeeling Express, Asma Khan transforms her new cookbook into a memoir, steeped in nostalgia.

In 2005, while attending a tea ceremony in Bamako, the capital of Mali, where serving tea punctuates daily life across courtyards, offices and roadside stalls, anthropologist Ute Röschenthaler realized that green tea had become more than a national drink.