{"id":4791,"date":"2010-09-23T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/?p=4791"},"modified":"2010-09-23T00:00:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T04:00:12","slug":"enjoy-your-morning-cuppa-with-shelley-munro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/23\/enjoy-your-morning-cuppa-with-shelley-munro\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy Your Morning Cuppa with Shelley Munro"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Morning Cuppa by Shelley Munro<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I like to drink tea and, like many other people throughout the world, I have a cup of tea to start my day. Tea is certainly an interesting subject. I used tea as a background for my contemporary romance, Tea For Two<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Tea, coffee and chocolate were all well known drinks by the mid eighteenth century and that\u2019s where we\u2019re headed right now. Grab a cup of your morning beverage of choice and hold tight\u2014we\u2019re time traveling back to 1720 England. Wait! Close your eyes. We\u2019re in Rosalind\u2019s bed chamber\u2026there\u2026okay, she\u2019s presentable now. You can open your eyes.<\/p>\n

Meet Rosalind, Viscount Hastings new wife. Yes, she\u2019s the spurned one, but we\u2019ll get back to that later.<\/p>\n

Rosalind likes to start her day with a cup of chocolate. Drinking chocolate was introduced to England around 1650. At that time, it was an expensive drink and only the wealthy partook. Word spread rapidly. The drink caught on and chocolate houses started to open in the cities. The chocolate of this time was a very sweet drink, with sugar and spices added to counteract the natural bitterness of chocolate.<\/p>\n

Tea arrived in Britain in 1657. Samuel Pepys liked to try these new beverages, and he drank his first cup of tea around 1660. Initially they called the new product a medicine and told everyone a sip of tea would cure many ills. Tea certainly caught on quickly. By 1770 the British were consuming 18 million pounds of tea a year. The mistress of the house kept the tea under lock and key because it was so expensive. This exorbitant price created a black market and smugglers shipped in a lot of tea from Europe.<\/p>\n

Employers allowed their cooks and servants to sell the used tea leaves. The servants collected and dried them, pocketing the money from the sale. The poor purchased the recycled tea leaves, which unscrupulous vendors sometimes doctored with dangerous additives such as dyes.<\/p>\n

Doctors, politicians, wine merchants and the clergy condemned tea as a bad thing, but tea gardens such as Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens proved the popularity of the new beverage. At Vauxhall, men and women of all classes drank tea together.<\/p>\n

The English started drinking coffee during the mid seventeenth century, and people flocked to taste the new beverage. Claims about its health properties helped sell the drink. Coffee Houses sprang up in Britain and they developed into male refuges. Coffee was around 2d a cup and newspapers and conversation were free. Gentlemen had their favorite coffee houses, usually catering to their politics or interests such as literature.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned earlier, Rosalind likes to start her day with a cup of chocolate while Charles, her new cousin by marriage, and his best friend favor coffee. Lady Augusta drinks tea and is mightily upset when her best friend suggests she serves inferior tea to the ladies after dinner.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the blurb for The Spurned Viscountess<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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Cursed with the sight and rumors of witchcraft, Rosalind\u2019s only chance at an ordinary life is marriage to Lucien, Viscount Hastings. She doesn\u2019t expect love, only security and children of her own. Determined to go through with the wedding, she allows nothing she encounters at the gloomy Castle St. Clare to dissuade her.<\/em><\/p>\n

He wants nothing to do with her.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Recently returned from the Continent, Lucien has no time for the English mouse his family has arranged for him to marry, not when he\u2019s plotting to avenge the murder of his beloved Francesca. He has no intention of bedding Rosalind, not even to sire an heir.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dark secrets will bind them.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Though spurned by her bridegroom, Rosalind turns to him for protection when she is plagued by a series of mysterious accidents and haunted by terrifying visions. Forced to keep Rosalind close, and tempted into passionate kisses, Lucien soon finds himself in grave danger of falling in love with his own wife\u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Spurned Viscountess<\/strong> is now available from Carina Press<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/em><\/p>\n

Food in History by Reay Tannahill<\/em><\/p>\n

The Art of Dining\u2014a history of cooking and eating by Sara Paston-Williams<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks for having me to visit today!<\/p>\n

What beverage do you like to start the day? Do you prefer tea, coffee, chocolate or something else? Do you like to read food scenes in your romances?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CONTEST: Answer one or all of the questions above and go into a draw to win a download of The Spurned Viscountess, a Georgian historical romance with gothic tones, by Shelley Munro<\/a><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shelley Munro lives in New Zealand and enjoys both writing and reading historical romance. She loves to cook and eat, but her husband does most of the cooking because he says it relaxes him after a stressful day at work. A great deal, according to Shelley! You can visit Shelley and learn more about her books at http:\/\/www.shelleymunro.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n

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