Tea vs coffee - which cuppa should you be drinking?
Reading this with a mug of coffee in your hand? Then you have permission to feel smug. The latest pan-European research, led by...
How Great Tea Race From China Whipped Up a Frenzy 150 Years Ago
Five of the fastest, most beautiful ships of the day – along with their rock-star skippers – made the nail-biting journey from Fuzhou to...
The great tea robbery: how the British stole China’s secrets and seeds – and broke its monopoly on t
China dominated the tea trade until the East India Company broke its monopoly, having sent Scottish botanist Robert Fortune on a covert...
East India House, City of London, 12 January 1848
....Previously just another trading commodity to the Honourable Company, tea had become a staple of British life. To be English was to...
Tea At The Ritz
Tea at The Ritz is the last delicious morsel of London. The light is kind, the cakes are frivolous and the tempo is calm, confident and...
For All The Tea In China
Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter - and industrial spy. In 1848, the East India Company engaged him to make...