English Tea Store Tea Header

Tea Blog

Official Blog of the English Tea Store


British hate American tea

  • Why the British Hate Our Tea

    Many British people have very specific opinions about how tea should be prepared. That’s not surprising, given how deeply tea is embedded in their culture. As noted in <a href="http://englishtea.us/2009/11/16/george-orwell’s-nice-cup-of-tea/rwell’s essay “A Nice Cup of Tea” and British tea traditions , few examples illustrate this better than Orwell’s famously detailed 1946 essay. Interestingly, Orwell didn’t… Continue reading