Re: [london.food] A nice cup of tea

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From: Jenny Mather
Subject: Re: [london.food] A nice cup of tea
Date: 13:24 on 26 Jul 2005
I had no idea we had tea grown in England!! wow.

I've been getting to know African and Sri Lankan tea estates (boring work
projects) so I'd be quite interested to know.

Its a bit strange as tea plants need a certain altitude (around 1000m i
think) for best growth so I wouldn't have thought cornish and kent sea
levels a good place!





> Tregothnan tea, from Cornwall.  It's quite nice.  Not worth twenty quid
> for a hundred grams though.
>
> I mentioned it to my father over the weekend and he thinks that there's
> an estate in Kent that is producing tea too.  And he told me where I can
> get it.  So expect further news shortly.
>
> --
> David Cantrell | random organic glop and a metric fuckton of electricity
>
> If you're talking puppies, the best way to serve them (IMO) is as
> puppy sashimi - flip 'em on their backs, tie their little paws down,
> and then cut open the belly and make strips of the nice, tender meat.
> The whimpers while you eat enhance the experience.
>
>



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