Andrea McDougal

A Southern Lady's Tea Journey Andrea McDougal

Andrea "Andy" McDougal's tea journey begins in the city of New Orleans, her childhood home, and flows from her ancestors back to the late 1700s, who helped to fashion New Orleans and her current home of fifty years, Baton Rouge. Her story begins with her great-grandmother and moves to her grandmother, her mother and into her own childhood. Through short, descriptive stories of her childhood that are beautifully illustrated, she tells of joining the family "tea drinking club." She weaves a story that goes back seven generations, to her fifth-great-grandfather, Carlos Louis Boucher de Grand Pre, who was Governor of Louisiana under Spanish rule. Along this journey, through the legacy that has been passed down to her, she has become a "lover of everything tea" and a "lover of everything beautiful."