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They bond through simple pleasures, such as cooking and lapsang souchong tea.

This nonalcoholic riff picks up many of the original drink’s notes, substituting rich, smoky lapsang souchong black tea for the Islay whisky in the original.

Other flavors to consider: tea leaves, such as the smoky Lapsang souchong; dried hibiscus flowers; various crushed peppercorns; that random spice blend somebody gave you; whichever highly aromatic and abundant herb you’re growing.

I keep coming back to his flavor combinations—lately, a savory tea soup featuring Lapsang souchong steeped with ginger, cloves, and mushrooms, in which ribbons of yellow squash wave like flashes of sunlight.

But one item on the list, a box of smoky Lapsang souchong tea, eluded him, so he set off through the warren of West Village streets, getting turned around only a few times.