Happy Thanksgiving! Here is a special treat for your long holiday weekend: a new episode! This week on Books and Tea Podcast, Kyrie and Cori explore some of their favourite authors again, in order to check off another one of Modern Mrs. Darcy’s 2018 Reading Challenge. But first, tea! As you know, Plum Deluxe is … Continue reading S2E18: Favourite Authors
We are technically still on a break as we figure out our crazy lives, but we couldn’t let Banned Book week be missed. In honor of Banned Books Week, we are returning to this genre again. However, with a twist! Both of our choices are in graphic novel version! Hey, that also means we can … Continue reading S2E17 Banned Books Graphic Novels Mash Up
This week, Kyrie and Cori join Christine, owner of Lia Leaf Tea House in Flagstaff to have a conversation about owning a tea shop and why she focuses on single origin tea. Discussion Christine talks us through how, at a very early age, she got into tea. As she grew up, she started researching the … Continue reading S2E16 Summer Series: Lia Leaf Tea House
This week, Kyrie and Cori join Heather, owner of the Flagstaff Tea Company, in her adorable, cosy shop in downtown Flagstaff to discuss what it’s like to own a tea shop, the history of tea, and do a chai tea flight, where we are the very fortunate ones tasting three of Heather’s homemade chais! What … Continue reading S2E15: Summer Series: Flagstaff Tea Company
What We Are Reading This week, Kyrie and Cori discuss Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. This 500 page book has been on our radar for a while. It was a Top 10 Book of 2017 for New York Times as well as a National Book Award Finalist. This book was picked to fulfill the 2018 … Continue reading S2E14: We like big books and we cannot lie
This week, Kyrie and Cori discuss summer reads, as well as what the definition of a summer read is. Tea Time During their discussion, Kyrie and Cori drink Plum Deluxe’s Evening in the Garden Herbal Tea, which is deliciously light, sweet, and a bit flowery. The tea itself is BEAUTIFUL, and you can see pieces … Continue reading S2E13: Summer Reading
This week, Kyrie and Cori discuss LGBTQ+ books they selected, as well as some history on Pride month. What We Are Drinking During their discussion, Kyrie and Cori, and their special guest Sydney drink Rosa De Jamaica, and it is a Hibiscus and Pineapple ice tea from Two Sisters Tea. As you can see by … Continue reading S2E12: LOVE is LOVE is LOVE is LOOOOVE
Hi Book Friends – our awesome sound editor, Daniel let us know that the recording quality was not so great this time around… Not sure what happened. Oh, technology. Our apologies for any inconvenience. This week, Kyrie and Cori discuss books that have underdogs, as well as some history on what an underdog is–literally! During … Continue reading S2E11: The Underdog
This week, Kyrie and Cori discuss books by authors of Asian Pacific decent in honor of Asian Pacific Heritage month. They’ll also discuss the history of Asian Pacific Heritage month, something neither one of them knew about until recently!! During their discussion, Kyrie and Cori drink Plum Deluxe’s special tea from Kyrie’s tea club membership–Orange … Continue reading S2E10: Asian Pacific Heritage Month
Okay, maybe not poo. But it rhymed. And Cori was less excited than Kyrie about the content. This week, Kyrie and Cori discuss the poetry collections they selected, as well as some history on poetry! During their discussion, Kyrie and Cori drink Plum Deluxe’s Vanilla Latte Tea, which, does taste like a vanilla latte, … Continue reading S2E9: Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, Kyrie thought these were great, Cori thought they were poo