Elizabeth Kolsky WHAT COULD BE MORE QUINTESSENTIALLY ENGLISH than a cup of sweet tea? At any fine London hotel, one…
John E. Wills Jr. IN 1793 GEORGE LORD MACARTNEY, ambassador of His Majesty George III to the Qianlong Emperor of…
Beatrice Hohenegger A TEAPOT DECORATED WITH A WARTIME IMAGE of a city in flames is highly unusual Susan Thayer’s Opium…
Jane T. Merritt THE BOSTON TEA PARTY holds a revered place in the history of the American Revolution and is…
Barbara G. Carson BEFORE BRITISH TAXATION EFFORTS and the American Revolution politicized tea, the acquisition of new domestic equipment for…
Woodruff D. Smith IN THE EUROPEAN WORLD, talking tea in company at home or In certain kinds of public establishments…
Angus Trumble close by those Meads for ever crown’d with Flow’rs, Where Thames with Pride surveys his rising Tow’rs, There…
Beatrice Hohenegger FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, tea was regarded as one of the seven daily necessities ip China – dnmk…
Reiko Tanimura WHEN THE ART CRITIC AND PHILOSOPHER Okakura Kakuzo (1862-1913) chose wabicha, the form of chanoyu perfected by Sen…
Reiko Tanimura TODAY JAPAN’S MANY TEA MANUFACTURERS produce mainly three types of green leaf tea, bancha, sencha, and gyokuro. The…