The Tea Trolley

“Clang! Clang! Clang went the trolley…” sang Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis. But it was definitely not a tea trolley. It was just some big, noisy contrivance that ran along rails laid down in the streets of St. Louis and that had a loud bell on it that was rung when the …

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Recent and Upcoming Tea Books 8

Arguably one of the first books to truly take tea seriously, James Norwood Pratt's Tea Lover's Treasury came out in 1982 and predated the relatively recent upswing of interest in "fine" teas. If you're looking for a copy of this book, it can seem a little confusing but (if I've got my story straight) it's …

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