Painting by Bernard de Clavière

Friday, 25 February 2011

Tea à la française!

You might not think that the French know much about tea...I am not talking about a tea bag in a mug with lashings of milk and sugar, no, I mean tea in a teapot with fine porcelain cups.  As I write I am sipping 'Nocturne Oriental' from Mariage Frères,  it is a green tea very delicately flavored with jasmine, rose and bergamot, it evokes the cool and soothing refinement of the inner courtyards of oriental palaces...Bliss, I tell you, throw in large silk cushions and the trickle of a fountain and we are there!

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