March 30th, 2008
Tea for two - a deconstruction of English tea rituals
I remember once when I was travelling in France being asked whether we still had ‘le five o’clock tea’. Every Frenchman naturally identifies the English with cricket, a stiff upper lip, and afternoon tea - though somehow, cucumber sandwiches have never made it across the Channel.
But “tea” mean several things in English and it’s […]