A Thousand, Billion Cups of Tea!

There have been several articles about tea and coffee on flights. It is rare, even more so in economy class, that beverages served on long-haul flights are any better than the worst microwave-reheated service-station dishwater. Furthermore, it has been...

Tea or Coffee? Among the oldest civilizations of the vast African continent, there is one to which we owe one of the most consumed drinks in the world. As this is a very short popular history of the drinks of...

Ordering his favourite drink at a Californian Starbucks drive-through, a man found himself with large burns on his hands, his stomach... and a part of his anatomy we cannot mention without grimacing in sympathy, given that the said part,...

As we reminded our readers recently, tea and the “proper customs” practised on the other side of the channel are not to be taken lightly. While the pioneer spirit has always been present in Americans, there are human adventures...

Whatever the airline, in economy class, the coffee is dreadful and the tea an abomination. Added to that, there are strange goings-on in the aisle that would turn the most affable of optimists into a hypochondriac ... Whether aboard a...