Month: May 2011

crumbsfeedyourfamily.blogspot.com – this is a family food blog, written by working mums Lucy McDonald and her sister Claire, was instantly…

In the early days of cultivation of tea in China, small plantations were often looked after by Buddhist monks on…

With so much being written about how tea is good for so many things, now they are saying that coffee…

Tea with Mrs Simkins: Delicious Recipes for Making a Meal Out of Tea-time: Cakes, Pastries, Biscuits and Savouries… This book…

It was sad to read in www.yorkshirepost.co.uk that after 92 years of service, a cake shop, called ‘Sterchi’s’ in Filey,…

In North Carolina, sweet tea is the popular beverage for many, as is the quintisentially British ‘Afternoon Tea’. However tea…

“The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to…

In 1484 Tea’s popularity reached a new height when Zen priest Murata Shuko introduced the Cha-no-yu or Hot Water For…

Rooibos is a herb which is the Afrikaans word for red bush. Apparently the Redbush story began around 200 years…

In the 1887-1890 Century the average consumption of sugar was only about 5lbs per person per year! Cardiovascular disease and…

As part of the Wirral Year of Food, ‘Port Sunlight Museum and Garden Village’ are taking the tea party to…

900 Tea was introduced to Japan by Buddhist monk Saicho. Tea penetrated into the rest of Asia and the Middle…

The Langham Hotel in London and it’s sister properties, in Auckland, Boston, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Pasadena and Shanghi are going…

What passes for cookery in England is an abomination…..It is putting cabbages in water. It is roasting meat till it…

To make your own herb tea put one small handful of the fresh herb or one heaped teaspoon of the…