Tea Maestro Bruce Richardson recently visited Amsterdam where he looked into the venerable Dutch East India Company (VOC) and its place in tea history.
The Dutch East Company Imported the First Tea into Europe
5 Facts You Don’t Know About the Boston Tea Party
Boston and British Ships of War Landing Their Troops, 1768 by Paul Revere December 16 marks the anniversary of one of the most iconic events in American history. On that night in 1773, about 150 men disguised their faces and tossed 340 chests of tea from three ships docked in Boston Harbor. The already contentious…
Was Brick Tea Thrown Overboard at the Boston Tea Party?
Was brick tea thrown overboard at the Boston Tea Party? Tea historian Bruce Richardson shreds that myth.
Tour the Tea Clipper Cutty Sark in London
The iconic clipper ship Cutty Sark has come back to life in her new Greenwich dry dock on the eastern edge of London, not far from where tea clippers once brought endless cargos of tea into the warehouses of the East India Company. Her journey here was not without incident, and we are fortunate to have…