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Let's have a cup of
tea: real tea drinking in England
Fortune Cookie: wisdom for
cooling the flames
每當憤怒,拿出鏡子看看自己。當你生氣時,你是不是很漂亮。
Whenever
anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself.
When
you are angry, you are not very beautiful.
In the UK we drink twice as much tea as coffee. It is no longer the exotic habit of 300 years ago nor the high class one of 150 years ago. Tea is for everyone. Only a tiny minority of 3% drink tea without milk.
In England tea comes in a pot or a mug and sometimes a china cup. Drinking tea that isn't black is often treated with suspicion by mainstream consumers of tea. The sign of someone you will struggle to understand. Despite the exhausting range of teas available few stray away from teabags filled with blended tea dust.
Assam, English Breakfast and Darjeeling are teas we turn to if teabags just aren't enough. Darjeeling first flushes can be very expensive as I found whilst visiting the hillstation in March. A tiny quantity, 25 grams, cost $10 and that wasn't even a first flush. It is subtle tea but no one uses milk in that region, foothills of the Himalayas. No real grazing land for milk cattle at that altitude.
Gold label tea was light and subtle for breakfast. Most of the tea we drank came from India. The jewel in our colonial crown. Britain colonised Dorje-Ling (Darjeeling) way back in 1828.
One of the Darjeeling Tea estates
Tea can be used to generate acts of kindness.
See the London art installation below:
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672928/a-tea-party-that-encourages-random-acts-of-kindness
When an event of even the mildest magnitude arises it is customary to have a cup of tea to soften its impact.
When an event of even the mildest magnitude arises it is customary to have a cup of tea to soften its impact.
Earl Grey Blue Lady with cornflowers and vanilla
Some would say such tea rooms give tea a bad name.
Rock n roll rebels are not usually found in such rooms.
See the following film extract to understand the point of view some hold in England. Set in an English Tea Room
From the film Withnail and I
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m6LhZJdCQY
This is not meant to represent all old people.
Let England Shake! by PJ Harvey
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