Person making a cup of tea in clear glass tea cup. - Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock Perhaps you've heard the phrase, "not for all the tea in China," used to refer to something that a person could not be ...
Robert Fortune Sarah Rose is the author of For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History . Her book tells the story of Robert Fortune, a 19th Century ...
This is an excerpt from For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World’s Favorite Drink and Changed History by Sarah Rose. With [his servant] Wang walking five paces ahead to announce his ...
While tea drinkers in the West might just drop a tea bag into boiled water and think nothing more of it, Chinese tea aficionados have elaborate preferences for how to pour water of what temperature ...
Perhaps you've heard the phrase, "not for all the tea in China," used to refer to something that a person could not be persuaded to do for any price. Little did you know, however, that "all the tea in ...