Jan Whitaker's Consumer Society

What the reviewers said ...

House & Garden:
“Looking for something more rewarding than reading tea leaves but just as much fun? Dip into Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn. ... The book is both informative and clear-eyed, and leavened with wonderful illustrations."

Katherine A. Powers, Boston Sunday Globe:
“Enlightenment – wondrous revelation, in fact – has come in the shape of Jan Whitaker’s Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn: A Social History of the Tea Room Craze in America. Here is a real contribution to social history, one that disperses the cozy fug that surrounds our present notion of the tea room, an institution that we associate with homey clutter and a certain comfortable dowdiness.”

Ian Marlowe, Tea: A Magazine:
"Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn (there was one, incidentally), is such a good read – informative, enlightening, and often amusing. ... a superb job on the research, ... will stand as a great reference tool. The excellent illustrations and photographs perfectly complement her text."

Diana Krauth, Pioneer Valley Women’s Times:
"Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn is a beautiful, complete, educational and entertaining work."

Margaret Flanagan, Booklist:
“Readers will relish this irresistible slice of American popular culture.”