The "60 Minutes" exposé of the beloved-mountaineer-turned-best-selling-author Greg Mortenson's memoir "Three Cups of Tea" is difficult to watch.
By Macy Halford April 18 , 2011The "60 Minutes" exposé of the beloved-mountaineer-turned-best-selling-author Greg Mortenson's memoir "Three Cups of Tea" is difficult to watch.
Over the years, news organizations with reputations for accuracy and thoroughness have told me the following about Chinese cuisine: The "spring roll is similar to a typical egg roll"; "Chinese black tea is difficult to find" in America; "yum cha" is Australian for "dim sum"; Italian prosciutto is virtually identical to, and may be substituted for, the hard salted hams of western China.
Identification of non- Camellia tea is difficult, partly due to a lack of unified standards.
Still, getting it right is hard; economic forecasting is like reading tea leaves — extremely difficult, unless you arrange the leaves into letters and numbers, which is no picnic, either.
Gregory detested Miss Horniman, the Manchester tea heiress, a difficult woman but the source of generous subsidies: "I think it is a mistake treating tradespeople as if they had one's own table of values".
In particular, fine grained, sharp tephra particles strongly adhered to the leaves of most crops, including waxy leaved spinach and tea, making cleaning difficult.
Reading the tennis tea leaves is increasingly difficult.
Finding loose tea can even be difficult at places that offer a formal English-style afternoon tea service, along with tea sandwiches, scones, tea cakes, the works.
In other stories it is variously a child-spirit that prevents a wife from conceiving, the familiar of a brilliant woman physicist, a tree ghost guiding an old Chinese tea seller through a difficult life and an unwelcome would-be collaborator with God the Zookeeper.
