Tea Bits

In the United States, hot tea is usually served after a meal—“coffee or tea” with or without dessert, or in an afternoon tea meal very often at a tearoom or a hotel. Though hot tea has become more … read more

Developed in the late 1870s as a reaction to the unhealthy practice of “tight-lacing,” tea gowns were designed to release women from the unnatural—and dangerous—impositions of vanity and idealized e … read more