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…
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,…
No one example captures how deeply tea drinking was embedded in the fabric of British everyday life than the decision of the government in 1942 to buy…
Britannia – apart from being a grandiose term for the United Kingdom, as in Britannia Rules the Waves – is a trade name for the line of machinery…
At one level, the association of Buddhism and tea seems natural and obvious. The ethos and practices of its many schools and their impact on modern modes of…
Here’s a short summary of the introduction of tea to Europe. You can surely guess which country it refers to: the first nation whose ships brought tea from…
Here’s a totally boring statement about tea: it is enjoyable, healthy for you, and inexpensive. That’s about as interesting as saying that that guy Rembrandt sure could splash…
Most evenings, the talk is about tea, the weather and the prices of green leaf in Kotagiri and Silas. Then there is also talk of how someone is…