About Brew Fancying
People have been taking great pleasure in tea since around tea time 2737 BC (before cuppas… before this people had to use hollowed out melons). In one popular legend, the Emperor of China was drinking a bowl of boiling water, the wind blew and a few leaves from a nearby tree fell into his water and began to change its colour. The ever inquisitive and curious (not to mention suicidally lacking in a working knowledge of basic food hygiene) monarch took a sip of the brew and was pleasantly surprised by its flavor and its restorative properties. A variant of the legend tells that the emperor tested the medical properties of various herbs on himself, some of them poisonous, and found tea to work as an antidote. This tradition continues today in the form of the renowned “tea and toast” hangover cure.
Regardless of the origins of tea, and a great many other facts, this podcast celebrates the institution of the great Great British cuppa and all that sail in her!
p.s. some or all of the above may or may not contain factual inaccuracies… much like the podcasts themselves.
