British foods at Rose Tree Cottage, PasadenaA box of tea bags is the food item most likely to be found stashed inside the suitcases of British travelers going abroad. I found this fascinating bit of gourmet triva while reading the Daily Mail at breakfast in London a few weeks back. A survey of shoppers discovered that…
Tea at Kew Palace with King George III
Kew Palace from the back garden on the River Thames side. © Bruce RichardsonOn the morning of October 25, 1760, George II died suddenly at Kensington Palace. His eldest son, Frederick, had died eight years earlier and the crown therefore went to Frederick’s first son, the 22 year old George. This young king’s boyhood had been…