Theme Coffee/Tea Art Print

Text on the tag: By the middle of the 18th century, tea had replaced ale and gin as the drink of the masses and had become Britain’s most popular b...

Text on the tag: An impressive 65 percent of coffee drinks are consumed at breakfast, and what better way to start the day?.   Conservation acid-f...

Text on the tag: The oldest known confection in the world is the Linzer Torte, a tart with jam and a lattice pasty top, which shows up not only in ...

Text on the tag: There are a variety of teapots of varying size and shapes, nurturing collectors around the world. What is said to be the largest c...

Text on the tag: Black, green, white, and oolong teas, all come from the same plant, Camellia sinensis. The oxidation, processing, and other factor...

Text on the tag: Tea was popular in the seventeenth century, however, the brewing required pots and tea strainers. Small bags were created by Tom S...

Text on the tag: Tea was popular in the seventeenth century, however, the brewing required pots and tea strainers. Small bags were created by Tom S...

Text on the tag: Early forks were used in the royal courts of the Middle East going as far back as the 7th Century. By the end of the 1600s, forks ...

Text on the tag: Coffee is the second most traded product in the world after petroleum. The Grand Café, in Oxford, is the site where England’s firs...

Text on the tag: Ancient civilisations made spoons from materials including wood, bone, rock, gold, silver and ivory. Today, stainless steel is the...

Text on the tag: Early tea bags were hand-sewn fabric bags, with patents dating as early as 1903 with their first commercial appearance around 1904...

Text on the tag: “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) Novelist and scholar   Con...

Text on the tag: Just to confirm, the definition of the word “best” according to the Oxford dictionary: “That which is the most excellent, outstand...

Text on the tag: A large-scale study by the Reading Agency, showed the immense benefits of reading, including increased self-esteem, reduced anxiet...

Text on the tag: Two meals a day, breakfast and dinner, was the norm in the early 19th C. The 7th Duchess of Bedford is said to have complained of ...

Text on the tag: When drinking coffee, caffeine stimulant travels to the brain leading to an enhanced firing of neurones resulting in improved ener...

Text on the tag: It was by accident that a 9th century Ethiopian goat herder discovered coffee when he noticed how crazy the beans were making his ...

Text on the tag: Tea is an integral part of British culture, and ‘My cup of tea’ is just one of the many tea-related phrases commonly used in the U...

Text on the tag: People were using ceramic teapots 11,000 ago in Asia and the Middle East. This custom didn't reach the West until much later, as t...

Text on the tag: Tea bags were invented in the United States back in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan who created small silk bags for giving samples of tea ...