In my never-ceasing quest to become all things classically British, I am becoming interested in exploring the English fascination with tea. To be honest, I do not know much about tea nor have I sampled much, but I am curious. A good English professor, sporting pipe and tweed jacket, would be a pure imposter if he didn’t stop in the afternoon for a “spot of tea”!
Calling all tea connosieurs: Would you mind making any recommendations for a tea novice, who happens to have an infatuous heritage with the magic bean, the ancient foe of tea? Thank you.
Kindest regards and cheerio.
1. The english prefer their tea leaves whole/fresh. They look down upon our processed, ground up tea leaves in baskets. They steep their tea through metal filters.
2. english breakfast tea is nasty. don’t bother
3. green tea is best when brewed twice (so they say). boil your water, let sit 1 minute, pour into pot and steep 3 minutes. Drain this tea (i drink it, but “they” say you shouldn’t) and pour more of the 1 minute water in and let steep 5 minutes. this is said to be the best tea.
4. Lavin was at Lauren & Jamie’s wedding so I got to see him
5. half of the people on my mission trip were at Alicia’s wedding. weeeeird.
6. where are the pics?
7. it was cool seeing yall. hope you guys visit NY sometime
The Mediterranean Tea Room in downtown
Wake Forest has the type of English tea that Lauren describes. It’s a cool place to go and sip tea and read some magesterial reformers.. The metal filters are cool, too.
Also, a lot of women and little girls go there to have ‘tea parties.’ But, you can find a corner and burrow yourself away. They also sell Koestenberger and Jones’ Marriage and Family book there, interestingly enough.
Charlie,
It is excellent to see another gentleman who doesn’t succumb to the “tea is for chicks” mindset. Lauren, thanks for the tip. When I get pictures of the wedding, I’ll post them, and yes, Janel and I want to find a couple of days (and a couple of dollars!) to go see you, Zack, and the Shiver up in NYC.
For some unknown reason, I gave the wrong name of the tea room. It’s called the Old English Tea Room, which makes sense. My wife and I went there for lunch today where I had an Earl Grey de-caf. I also enjoyed a bowl of chili and a croissant.
You sound like someone I know from across the pond, Charlie!
Haha. I know – I thought about Dys. when I wrote that. If you were wondering, tonight I had a white cheese feta pizza from Milton’s which I washed down with a .5 liter Sprite.