All Things Tea

According to legend, in 2732 BC Emperor Shen Nung discovered tea when leaves from a wild tree blew into his pot of boiling water.
Tea in England was originally an expensive product that only the elite could afford. Merchants and customers used little tea pots to test that the tea they had ordered was up to the quality they were expecting.
The art of reading tea leaves is called tasseography
Queen Anne drank tea so regularly that she substituted a large bell-shaped silver teapot for the tiny Chinese tea pots. The earliest tea service dates from her reign.
In 1840, afternoon tea was introduced in England by Anna, the seventh Duchess of Bedford. She would become hungry around four o'clock in the afternoon, and so the trend started.
Tea cups didn’t always have handles. At first, the English made cups without handles, influenced by the traditional Chinese tea bowls.
Drinking tea is less likely to produce a ‘caffeine crash’ than drinking coffee.

Tea is Life!