Tea and its popularity simply never seems to wane. The most widely consumed drink in the entire world after water, tea can be found in the majority of households in the US, in one form or another. While we tend to associate the popular beverage with the Brits – many of whom seem to have […]
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Tea has been sipped, slurped and sunk from cups, mugs and beakers for as long as any of us can remember, but have you ever stopped to think about the vessel for brewing the tea: the humble teapot? Who was the first to come up with a design for a teapot, and when were they […]
The year was 1840, and the seventh Duchess of Bedford, Anna – who was a ‘lady of the bedchamber’ and good friend of Queen Victoria – found herself feeling peckish one afternoon. The hunger pangs struck at around 4 o’clock, and as the household’s evening meal wasn’t until the fashionably late time of 8 o’clock […]