Your humble author – well, author at least – sits here at his keyboard writing what is for a Brit, semi-Americanized though he may be, a painful acknowledgement:…
It took a century to turn the tea bowl into the tea cup. In China and Japan, tea had always been served in a small dish, without an…
Sunil Gurung is one of the 50,000 workers from the eastern and north eastern states of India who have found the Nilgiris, in South India, a safe place…
Have you ever been surprised by a whiff of something that brings back a memory, strongly, sharply? If you could bottle memories, to just be reminded of a…
The country with the highest per capita tea consumption is not England, China or India. It’s Turkey, where the average is over 3,000 cups per person per year,…
My coming-of-age book was incidental. It was not a classic. Not Catcher in the Rye or To Kill a Mocking Bird. I ended my teens with Mario Puzo’s…
Earl Grey… Ah, the myths, the marketing, the lofty names and the mystery. The mystery is that there is no way to tell from the name and packaging…