The True History of Tea Book

The eternal debate - milk or tea first? Households worldwide are embroiled in the argument. Adherents of both views hold forth on their reasons. Gives them something to talk about at low or high tea. Completely out of my normal reading genre, the book contains more about tea than I ever needed to know. For example, Brook Bond's PG Tips is short for Pre-Gest-Tee (for predigestive tea). Winston Churchill called tea more important than ammunition! During the Blitz of London, mobile tea canteens traveled to heavily damaged area to offer tea to anyone in need. Each bomb shelter had an "official" tea taster whose opinion everyone respected. Then there is the tea or coffee dispute. In our home, men drank coffee, women drank tea and that was the way it was!