Tea Sets, Can You Imagine This?
September 29, 2009 by Marye Audet
Filed under Beautiful Things
Picture a traditional tea and you may well imagine an elaborate silver tea set with a gracious Victorian hostess pouring Earl Grey. Did you ever wonder who began the whole tea set tradition?
Well it was the Chinese, centuries ago, but I since I want to chat about the Victorian style sets and I don’t want to get into a long history lesson that aspect of it will wait.
Tea was first brought into Portugal by a missionary who had spent time in China. Prior to his documentation of the use of tea caravans had brought small amounts in to Europe but …read more
