December 27, 2021 Issue

The New Yorker asked lots of great questions this year, none greater than the three contained in this passage from David Kortava’s delightful “Tables For Two: Tea and Crumpets,” in this week’s issue: 

If Lady Mendl’s takes liberties with the conventions of afternoon tea, Brooklyn High Low detonates the paradigm. Pastrami and Dijon mustard on rye? Guava and blue cheese on gluten-free bread? Twenty-nine tea varieties, including one infused with whole butterfly-pea flowers that turn the liquid a psychedelic indigo?