Steeped in Tea

A Look into Afternoon Tea 🍵

Tables inside a tea house

"Afternoon tea, that most quintessential of English customs is, perhaps surprisingly, a relatively new tradition. Whilst the custom of drinking tea dates back to the third millennium BC in China and was popularised in England during the 1660s by King Charles II and his wife the Portuguese Infanta Catherine de Braganza, it was not until the mid 19th century that the concept of ‘afternoon tea’ first appeared."


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Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept
Frances Hardinge