Tea and Cake Confab Wednesday in Warwick
Anbu Vasudevan will make special teas and cake for a community gathering at Wisner Library
Anbu Vasudevan’s first two Warwick gatherings for tea, cake and talk fed interest in more kinds of communing and led to plans for a third tea and cake event, coming on April 19.
“Now I’m busy thinking about what to do,” Vasudevan said. She introduces a discussion topic as well making different teas and cakes each time.
She had devised the Wednesday morning events as a way to alleviate loneliness she felt as her youngest children approached adolescence, and connecting with parents was less necessary. She also missed her native Malaysian traditions that brought people together frequently around food.
At the second tea and cake event, the group brainstormed about other events they could introduce in Warwick. As they ate Anbu’s gluten-free almond cake and banana bread and drank Earl Grey or Malaysian tea, their suggestions included multi-cultural possibilities, whether food, music, story-telling or posting one of the 52 Malaysian virtues around town weekly.
“We’d explain what the virtue is and how to practice it,” said Vesudevan.
They also suggested pooling useful information, books for children and a circle of help.
The next tea and cake event will be at 10 a.m., Wednesday, April 19, at Albert Wisner Public Library in Warwick. Vasudevan, a professional caterer, will serve gluten-free tapioca cake with, again, two kinds of teas. Free.
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