The book takes its title from a Balti proverb: "The first time you share tea with a Balti, you are a stranger.
Sharing tea with a cherished friend knee-deep in juggling a tsunami of expectations over the next 10 days, I'm reminded how expectations flavor our lives and loves.
When we finished shooting, she led us to her family's small thatched cottage, where we shared tea and sweet dumplings with her parents and baby brother.
Ahmed Hassan, a young man from a working-class Cairo neighborhood, is an exuberant guide to the Tahrir scene, sharing tea and cigarettes with students, children and workers.
Wherever I went, I was welcomed into stone-and-mud homes to share tea and food with the Kurdish shepherds who lived there.
But we have done this in U.P". Affectionately referred to as Behenji, which is a respectful way to address a sister, Ms. Mayawati was born into a community once relegated to leather work and, according to Hinduism's ritual purity code, forbidden to share tea cups or water wells with upper-caste people.
Glossy promotions show gay men and lesbian women with their arms around each other or sharing tea and ice-creams.
At the Beth Chatto Gardens, Christine experiments with triangular planting and shares tea and cake with a gardening legend.
Seven months later, at the 2008 Williamstown Theater Festival, where "Broke-ology" was having its debut, Ms. Evans was sharing an iced tea with Mr. Jackson when he surprised her with a draft of "When I Come to Die," the play she had commissioned.
Those who invite us to eat dinner with them at their tents, who share cups of tea with us, and insist that we indulge in a snack with them from their small number of allotted weekly crackers.
