Early suffragists spent years, and in some cases entire lifespans advocating for the right to vote. Many of their meetings were infused with tea.
The Women’s Right to Vote Movement Started with a Tea Party
Look Deeply Into Your Cup of Tea
Plucking leaves in Guizhou China. May 21 is International Tea Day, a day when we believers in the communal cup of humanity gather to spread the good news of our favorite beverage. Teaists are all part of this colorful cult of tea that has simmered worldwide for over a thousand years. Although Westerners are new…
What Is the Perfect Morning Tea?
Fans of Downton Abbey may be fascinated—and a bit envious—of the Crawley daughters' morning ritual of awakening to a tray of hot tea placed upon their recumbent laps by their ladies' maids. I suspect the grand estate house was quite drafty; consequently, more than a few cups of hot tea were consumed before the pampered…
When Monkeys Picked Tea
I received a call a few years ago from an MTV staffer who was producing a story on "manly teas." He had been offered a monkey-picked oolong in a tea store. He was fascinated about this rare tea and thought it would be appealing for his male audience. "How do they train monkeys to pick…
Blending Teas for Yale’s Center for British Art
Tea Maestro Bruce Richardson designed signature tea blends based upon art work found in the Yale Center for British Art. Read the story and see the photos of this creative endeavor.
In Search of Oriental Beauty in the Tea Fields of Taiwan
Oriental Beauty, one of the world's great oolongs, begins with bug-bitten tea leaves from the mountain tea gardens of Taiwan.
Is Chinese Tea Safe To Drink?
I was in Shanghai between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, just as the first mention of a mysterious virus was beginning to appear in the news. I returned two weeks before travel from China was banned and I continue to stay in touch with Chinese industry officials as well as with importers here in America.…
Duck in for Afternoon Tea at the Peabody Hotel Memphis
Bruce Richardson reviews the afternoon tea service at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis and stays to interview the hotel's Duck Master before the the daily duck parade.
The Dutch First Brought Tea to America
The earliest reference to the use of tea in Holland appears in a letter dated January 2, 1637, from the “Lords XVII,” the name by which the seventeen directors of the Dutch East India Company were popularly known, to the Governor General of Netherlands East India at Batavia. It reads: As tea begins to come…
Your Chance to Own a Crooked Tearoom
The medieval Suffolk village of Lavenham has more than 300 half-timbered homes and now you can own one of their most photographed buildings — if you don't mind slanting floors and you can afford the £525,000 price tag. Munnings Tea Rooms at the Crooked House in Lavenham, England. Everyl Madell once ran the popular Munnings…