In which we sit down to tea with the Queen of English Literature and chat about the nature of time, Regency cads and night-outs in the twenty first…
I began drinking tea around the time I turned 18, coffee at 21. The everyday presence of the latter has been punctuated by many cups of tea. These…
Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don’t serve them tea. —Suzuki Roshi, Zen monk and teacher, on…
The instinct which warns all good Englishmen when tea is ready immediately began to perform its silent duty. Even as Thomas set gate-leg table to earth there appeared,…
My Thai host stretches his sun-browned arm toward me: “Have some tea.” It’s not a steaming beverage poured from a teapot, but a shapeless wad looking like over-cooked…
I come from a family of tea drinkers. My mother’s side of the family even had gradations: there were tea pots (who could drink tea at any time…
This is an account of the times when the muse didn’t strike and a morning’s worth of work met with disaster. Smoked Rose Tea Or the day we set…
Dehradun or Doon as we prefer to call it, is a valley in the lower Himalayas. At one time, it had everything you could possibly want of a…