Description
What started as an impossible dream -- to build a caf that employs women recovering from prostitution and addiction -- is helping to fuel an astonishing movement to bring freedom and fair wages to women producers worldwide where tea and trafficking are linked by oppression and the opiate wars.
Becca Stevens started the Thistle Stop Caf to empower women survivors. But when she discovered a connection between caf workers and tea laborers overseas, she embarked on a global mission called "Shared Trade" to increase the value of women survivors and producers across the globe.
As she recounts the victories and unexpected challenges of building the caf , Becca also sweeps the reader into the world of tea, where timeless rituals transport to an era of beauty and the challenging truths about tea's darker, more violent history. She offers moving reflections of the meaning of tea in our lives, plus recipes for tea blends that readers can make themselves.
In this journey of triumph for impoverished tea laborers, hope for caf workers, and insight into the history of tea, Becca sets out to defy the odds and prove that love is the most powerful force for transformation on earth.
Author: Becca Stevens
Publisher: Jericho Books
Published: 11/04/2014
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781455519026
ISBN10: 1455519022
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Agriculture & Food (see also Political Science | Public Poli
- Cooking | Beverages | Coffee & Tea
- Political Science | Human Rights
About the Author
Becca Stevens is an Episcopal priest serving as chaplain at St. Augustine's at Vanderbilt University. She is the founder of Magdalene and Thistle Farms, social enterprises for women recovering from violence, prostitution, and addiction. The White House named her a Champion of Change in 2011. The Small Business Council of America named her the Humanitarian of the Year in 2014.
Learn more: BeccaStevens.org