I was taught how to make chai by an Indian guru at Millbrook, Timothy Leary’s country house in upstate New York, in 1968.
CHAI A LA TIMOTHY LEARY
- Pour milk (how much depends on how many people you’re making it for) into a small pot or saucepan. Place on low heat.
- Add about a handful of loose black tea.
- Add any combination (depends on what’s in the house) of ginger, cinnamon (a cinnamon stick is best, but whatever you have), nutmeg, whole cloves.
- Keep stirring! Don’t let it boil! Taste periodically until it seems spicy enough. Then add honey to taste and stir some more.
- Strain into cups, take a sip, and say, “Om!”
Retired underground cartoonist and current comics historian Trina Robbins has been writing graphic novels, comics, and books for almost half a century. Her subjects have ranged from Wonder Woman and The Powerpuff Girls to her own teenage superheroine, GoGirl!, and from women cartoonists and superheroines to women who kill. She's won an Inkpot Award and was inducted in the Will Eisner Hall of Fame at the San Diego Comic-Con. She lives in a moldering, 100+-year-old house in San Francisco with her cats, shoes, and dust bunnies.
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