Get your oolong on at Porter Square Books, 25 White Street in Cambridge, on Wednesday, January 13 at 7 pm! From morning eats to evening sweets, Steeped infuses your day with the flavors and fragrances of tea. Romance your oat porridge with rooibos, jazz up your brussel sprouts with jasmine, charge your horchata with masala chai. Annelies Zijderveld’s deliciously inventive tea-steeped recipes include:

Matcha Chia Pudding Parfaits
Earl Grey Soba Noodle Salad
Green Tea Coconut Rice
Chamomile Buttermilk Pudding with Caramelized Banana
Earl Grey Poached Pears with Masala Chai Caramel Sauce

This beautiful book will inspire you to pull out your favorite teas, fire up the stove, and get steeping. Annelies Zijderveld is a food writer and creator of the literary food blog, the food poet, selected by Alimentum Journal as one of their favorite food blogs. Her passion for working with good food companies started during her 8 years heading up marketing at Mighty Leaf Tea. She is the digital media newsletter editor for the International Association of Culinary Professionals and an associate editor of Poetry International. Her work has been published on Today, Edible Sacramento, Remedy Quarterly, Arthouse America and others. She holds an MFA in poetry from New England College and lives in Oakland with her husband and sourdough pet, Salvatore.