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5 Key Blog Takeaways: 1. **Historical Origin**: The British are often credited with adding milk to tea in 1660, though there are earlier accounts from China and Tibet. The practice originally aimed to prevent fragile porcelain teacups from cracking due to the hot tea's temperature.2. **Preventing Cracks in Teacups**: Adding milk first helps neutralize the tea's temperature, preventing the porcelain or glass teacups from cracking due to sudden temperature changes.3. **Counteracting Tannins**: Milk is added to tea to counterbalance the tannins present in black tea. Tannins can stain teeth and teacups, and milk helps reduce this staining effect.4. **Class Distinction**:...

Good morning, my wonderful friends! Over the next couple weeks the owner of this lovely establishment and I, have decided it would be fun to have a little histor-tea lesson! Often times we are approached and asked about tea etiquette and what is appropriate to add to your tea, how much, when to add it, etc etc. While I maintain that there is no truly right or wrong way to enjoy tea, there is definitely a rich history to be known on why we do tend to add certain things to our tea. In the coming weeks, I will be...

            Good afternoon, my quali-tea people! I am certainly hoping you all had a wonderful Valentine’s Day with your special someones and that love is continuing to fill all your days as we get through this winter together. In thinking about Valentine’s Day passing and reminiscing on my other favorite holiday – Black Friday -- I came to the realization that another delightfully delicious day is upon us. In the case of this year, Brown Thursday, or the glorious day when all the Valentine’s day chocolates are reduced in price! Furthermore I thought, why not enjoy two of my most...

            Good morning, lovely tea people! Today rather than preach to you about things that you should be doing, I figured I should talk about things that you shouldn’t be doing with tea! Below I will try to help you guys realize some of the most common mistakes that are made when making tea, most of which I was a top offender of prior to working here, and how to avoid looking like as silly as I did! 1. First and foremost, drinking tea in bags is wrong! Who knew??  Well, I suppose “wrong” is the wrong word. No pun...