Posts Tagged ‘afternoon tea vs. high tea’
Touring the U.K. Drinking Tea All the Way
It’s taken me 3 months to chronicle our one-week vacation from Edinburgh to London. Thank you for letting me share my pilgrimage to the land of tea. For a tea lover like me it was the trip of a lifetime! I’ll summarize it here but click on the links if you’d like to read more…
Read MoreHigh Tea, Afternoon Tea and Elevenses
What’s the difference between High Tea and Afternoon Tea? No, they’re not the same. And what in the world is Elevenses? NPR gives a very good explanation in this article. Here’s our post on this same topic: afternoon tea not high tea. Toodles!
Read MoreMad Hatter Afternoon High Tea
March 28, 2015 – We went to a Mad Hatter tea hosted by our friends at Piper & Leaf in Lowe Mill – America’s largest independent center for the arts. The tablescape was inventive and yet still easy enough to do at home if you want. The creative minds at Piper & Leaf…
Read Moreafternoon tea not high tea
You may hear others (I know it’s not you) mistakenly call afternoon tea “high tea.” It’s understandable because it does seem a rather highfalutin’ affair but it is incorrect to call it high tea. Afternoon tea originated, so they say, with Lady Anna Maria Stanhope, Duchess of Bedford who was a lady in waiting for Queen Victoria. The custom…
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