Beth Parker | Writer

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  • Tea tales

    Tea tales

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    Beth Parker

    Thank goodness for Downton Abbey. The art of drinking tea had been reduced to warm water in a Styrofoam cup or some concoction of berries with candy, soaked in hot water, and sold for $5 as “birthday cake blend”. But at Downton, the world learned the real deal about tea. We watched Duchess Grantham and Violet…

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  • Parker’s Toronto, The Magic Flute and the COC, no.1

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    Beth Parker

    Blog advisors say write about what you know—so as a true, born and lived-in-Toronto-all-my-life city dweller—each week I’ll feature a Toronto place, event or experience. No apologies that Blog 1 is about opera, except to say, don’t be alarmed. The truth is—I had to start somewhere. And this week, well, we went to the…

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