A wealthy merchant of the East India Company who employed Thomas
Twining and introduced him to tea and coffee, the new drinks
from the East. A very high quality black tea grown in the
Himalayan Mountains in North India. It is most often referred to
as the champagne of teas. A Japanese Buddhist monk who spent two
years (803-5) in China. He returned to Japan with tea seeds
which he planted at his monastery. It is said that he later
served the new drink to the Emperor Saga, who ordered tea to be
grown more widely. The site of Tom's Coffee House, Thomas
Twining's original coffee house. Devereux Court was situated
just off London's Strand. The location no longer exists,
although adjacent buildings eventually became Twinings shop at
216 Strand. Tea grown in the Dooar district located in Central
India. Duchess of Bedford It is said that Anna, 7th Duchess of
Bedford invented afternoon tea sometime during the 1840s.
Although her simple pot of tea with a light snack was originally
introduced to counteract her hunger pa