Last time, I wrote about three new tea companies in Bristol but didn’t have enough room to include a fourth called TART - named for the savoury and sweet tarts that are the speciality of the house.  Great name - short, memorable and to the point!  I had known for… read more...

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 I had to travel to Bristol a week ago and so took the opportunity of visiting some of the new tea stores and tea rooms that are attracting a good deal of attention there.  Bristol is a vibrant, lively town with a colourful mix of all different ages and types of people – perhaps a bit like a smaller version of London

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 It’s wonderful how tea connects to so many other foodie aspects of life.  Just before heading off to India to the Nilgiri Hills in the last week of August (of which more next time), I was introduced to an amazing… read more...

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How I love London in summer!  The hesitant sun this year has kept temperatures… read more...

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 Just over two weeks ago, I wrote that I was enjoying the cool, calm  interior of Babington’s tearoom in Rome.  I first visited this peaceful, very English tearoom (here it is on the left) some 7 or 8 years ago and fell… read more...

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 As I write, I am sitting in the cool and calm of Babington’s Tea Room in Rome.  Outside in the Piazza di Spagna, the temperature has soared to well over 30° C but inside I am quenching my thirst with a glass of refreshing iced peach tea.  I am here… read more...

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May has been a whirlwind month for me this year - two days after returning home from Las Vegas and San Diego, I flew out to Japan for a week of events in Tokyo and had a wonderful few days in some of the city’s best-known tea locations

After 20 years of interest, Japanese women are still fascinated by British… read more...

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I am just back home after a week of travelling - five days at this year’s buzzy, exciting World Tea Expo in Las Vegas and 2 days in San Diego where I had a wonderful day at Tea Upon Chatsworth, one of the prettiest tearooms I have ever visited.Expo this year was smaller… read more...

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As I write, I am enjoying a morning cup of smooth, strong Guatemalan tea that I brought back from Los Andes tea estate where I was two weeks ago. The Hazard family, owners of the estate, had invited me to… read more...

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As I leave home today to travel to Chicago for the House Wares show there, I am sad that I shall not be in London for the memorial service on Monday next week for my lovely friend Amber McCarroll who so sadly died from cancer at the end of last year. Amber and I did so much together… read more...

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