#tea-drinking

[le-rococo-en-versailles]

Catarina de Bragança, Infanta of Portugal, Queen consort of England, Scotland and Ireland as wife of King Charles II, from 1662 to 1685.

Portrait by Peter Lely (1663-1665)

1661: When princess Catherine of Braganza arrived in Britain to wed Charles II, she was shocked to find men urinating all over the palace. Her ladies claimed  “that they cannot stir abroad without seeing in every corner great beastly English pricks battering against every wall.”

She is credited with introducing the British to tea-drinking, which was then widespread among the Portuguese nobility.

[sl-walker]

[mike13mt]

Spring tea: savoy sponge cake, flowering wisteria and lemon tea by photosimysia

[comtedemoney]

Can drinking tea turn you into a whore?

In eighteenth-century England, there were many reasons why families might have been torn apart, or why dutiful wives and hardworking husbands could suffer a fall from grace. Heart-rending tales of orphaned children, abandoned lovers and destitution fill the pages of contemporary newspaper columns and court records. For some, one of the prime suspects behind the nation’s idleness and debauchery was quietly, steadily taking root in almost every street in the country.

Like the venerable English Dr. Samuel Johnson, arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history who is well known for his "refutation" of Bishop Berkeley's immaterialism, I am and remain “a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.”

[haikurules]

Haiku 188: 3 October 2013

Time for drinking tea, cloud thoughts floating past the cup - when drinking - just drink!

[forever-vintage-vu]

Face The Wall | via Tumblr na We Heart It http://weheartit.com/entry/76419428/via/Emma_f_Grimm

[passionfruitvibes]

Face The Wall | via Tumblr on We Heart It. http://weheartit.com/entry/71282654/via/Emma_f_Grimm

[beastoftheblackhole]

Fellow tea-drinkers, I have a question for you.

So I have this glass mug that I use when all the other ones are dirty (it doesn't hold as much tea so I tend to avoid it even if it looks super-snazzy), and all the others are ceramic. I noticed today that a tea I drink pretty regularly actually tastes different in the glass mug. It's not that I brewed it differently or anything, I brewed it the same way I always do. I think it's the mug, I've noticed this before.

So now I'm curious. Has anyone else noticed this, a different flavour in a mug of a different material?