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The Comfort Tea Cocktail - A Custom Cocktail for Leora Skolkin-Smith

Hot Redhead Media is delighted to present the ninth episode of Season Three of the Booktails literary podcast series, featuring author Leora Skolkin-Smith and her novel Stealing Faith.

In this episode, Skolkin-Smith reads from Stealing Faith and chats about her relationship with Grace Paley, her understanding of celebrity, feminism in the 1970s, and depression as an occupational hazard for creative people with co-hosts Heather Fowler and Reine Dugas.


Podcast releases 9/15, by noon PST. Here are the ingredients for The Comfort Tea Cocktail, the custom cocktail created for this book. Grab your copy of Stealing Faith now, make the cocktail, and pull up a chair for the full podcast episode.

Comfort Tea Cocktail


2 oz gin

1 chamomile tea bag

1 oz lemon juice

1/2 tsp. honey


Set tea bag in gin for fifteen minutes to infuse. Then mix the gin, lemon juice, and honey in a shaker with ice. Strain and pour into a coupe glass and garnish with a lemon slice. To make this a mocktail, use AF gin or skip it and make a cozy cup of tea.





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