Gloria Mitchell always starts her day with a cup of tea.
At home, after hours of making pot after pot for her customers at My Fair Ladies Tea Room, she ends her day with another.
For her, tea is warm and inviting. It’s good to share with friends. It’s nice to have alone.
The soothing drink is a reminder of a childhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., of stopping by her grandmother’s house for tea and cookies after school.
While many Los Angeles restaurants open with great fanfare only to close quicker than a Tom Arnold musical, a few Downtown establishments have been serving food for more than 80 years. City em-ployees, residents and visitors still enjoy moist French dip sandwiches from Philippe’s and Cole’s (both established in 1908) while debating which eatery invented the recipe. Young Hollywood has joined the line of old regulars queued up to enjoy breakfast at Mayor Richard Riordan’s the Original Pantry Café, which opened its doors in 1924. And Angelenos can still enjoy a fine steak served in a real rail car at the Pacific Dining Car, just as our forefathers did in 1921.
Members of the Traveleers’ Travel Club, one of the largest travel clubs in Stanislaus County, gathered Monday at Mimi’s Cafe in Modesto for their annual tea party. About 70 of the club’s 200-plus members attended, many bringing their own teapots and cups. In the photo, Lucille Absher pours tea from a bunny teapot brought by Margaret Santos. The club was formed 15 years ago.
(this article was taken from modbee.com)
So many artists in the past 10 years have used the teapot as a canvas for every sort of inventive interpretation. How and why this common household item has morphed into an art object has always intrigued me.
So when I learned a workshop on the teapot form with a premier potter named Fong Choo was offered at the Evanston (Ill.) Art Center, I could not sign up fast enough.
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