A POEM FOR TEA
When the world is at oddsAnd the mind is all at seaThen cease the useless tediumAnd brew a cup of tea
There's magic in its fragranceThere's solace in its tasteAnd the laden moments vanishSomehow into space
The world becomes a lovely thingThere's beauty as you seeAll because you briefly stoppedTo brew a cup of tea~Unknown
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There is naught for bringing comfort into one's day like sitting down quietly and having a nice hot cup of tea, be it regular tea or herbal. Princess Catherine of Braganza arrived in England in 1662 to marry King Charles ll and brought with her in her belongings a chest of tea. This was the start of a "Tea Culture" in the U.K.
Certainly tea was already available in England, but up to that point was popular mostly with persons of quality, meaning people who could afford the commodity along with the imported chinaware to go along with it! It would be a further 100 years before the first made English teapots would be produced that could stand up to the heat of the boiling water without breaking. By then tea drinking had become quite commonplace.
Its important to note however, that one doesn't really need anything fancy in order to enjoy a nice hot cuppa! You don't even need a room full of people or special company to enjoy a cup of tea.
Some of my favorite and most memorable tea drinking experiences have been quite humble and solitary. (Although admittedly it is muc...
