In 1560 the first European to encounter tea and write about it was Jasper de Cruz, a missionary on Portugals first commercial trade journey to China. Portugal, the most advanced navy at the time, was the first European country to gain the right of trade with China.
TEA IN 1560…
Uncategorized
DIVERMENTI – A BRILLIANT SITE FOR ALL BAKERS…
This fantasntic site even has baking on the homepage, Divertimenti plus top quality elegant cookware, everything you could possibly need available online. There are cookbooks, teas, spices, not to mention Aga, La Cornue and Rangemaster […]
Uncategorized
LOVE FOOD BUT HATE WASTE?…
I don’t know if your like me put if you love your food but hate the waste then this brilliant website is just for you. www.lovefoodhatewaste.com has ingenious solutions, like tips on getting portion sizes […]
Coffee
WORLD BIGGEST COFFEE MORNING – FRIDAY 30th SEPTEMBER for MACMILLAN CANCER SUPPORT
World Biggest Coffee Morning – Friday 30th September 2023 MacMillan Cancer Support. Join MacMillan on 30th September for Coffee Morning. Sign up to host, invite your guests and get together to raise money for people […]
Interesting. Didn’t Marco Polo say anything at all about tea?
‘I have not told half of what I saw’ is the only one I can remember – can’t remember any about tea?
And from then, it took another 46 years until the first tea chests in Europe arrived in Amsterdam, in 1606.
Thanks for that info Tom, you should go on egg heads you would win hands down :)):)
Thus began the escalation of ‘Tea Drnking’….Now touted as the ‘National Drink’ :>>
That’s so true
x