Ash bark was used to make a tonic for liver complaints and rheumatism. ...
Good times??
Tea was viewed by many English physicians in the early eighteenth century as foreign and dangerous! One, a Dr Willich, described tea as 'that most deadly poison', and he was not alone in his views. Beer was the healthy drink which provided the labouring sorts with their sustenance and many from the middling and upper sorts believed that industrious people could not possibly do a proper days work if they had breakfasted merely on tea! Tea was seen as a genteel herb, only suitable for those who had an ample diet to which it acted partly as a good aid to constitution.Salsero wrote:This is pretty cool stuff to be throwing around in this forum of teaheads! A vice, huh? That makes it sound a lot more interesting. Frankly, I've had my fill of "the health benefits of tea" and I am ready for "the wild and sinful" side. Mmmm, know a good source for this ash leaf tea? As a puerh drinker, it could be a step up from some of what I've gotten out of China.Jack_teachat wrote: dissertation on the concept of tea drinking as a vice in eighteenth century England
It should be a lot of fun to write! I'll keep you updated on how it's going.
Jack
p.s Sorry I have no supply!
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Sorry if I sounded grousey - I didn't mean to! My problem was that I got too into reading the matcha posts and all things non-matcha went out of my head (short attention span, you know). I was even making little w-shaped motions in the air.chamekke wrote:Sorry, I did go seriously off-topic just then
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Not at all. Actually I appreciated the reminder.auggy wrote:Sorry if I sounded grousey - I didn't mean to!chamekke wrote:Sorry, I did go seriously off-topic just then
W-shaped motions? You say that like it's a bad thingauggy wrote:My problem was that I got too into reading the matcha posts and all things non-matcha went out of my head (sort attention span, you know). I was even making little w-shaped motions in the air.
Excellent! {steeples fingers}
Sorry I got in late last night, but I have to comment on how lovely the YM looks in Fred's green rimmed lily bowl! Beautiful!GeekgirlUnveiled wrote: ... Then I moved on. All the Yutaka'ing over the last day or two had me wishing for some of the great Yutaka Midori, and what better teaware to break out for this than my new Fred Parker lily teabowl.
