Friday 23 October 2009

KINGS QUEENS AND COFFEE BEANS.

A look at the blossoming coffee culture developing in the UK.



Windsor

Part 1

England is regarded as a nation of tea drinkers as we all very well know.
Well before the days of the opium wars (1830’s) and the occupation of India (1750’s), the British had already perfected the art of tea drinking.
These days it's still a custom in the U.K to have afternoon tea, complete with silver ware, cucumber sandwiches, scones with clotted cream and rose petal jelly at one of the many posh hotels or tea houses in London.

Kings and queens have even appointed tea merchants to supply their royal needs with this most flavorsome and fragrant commodity in return for their royal seal of approval.

But times have changed, and so has the way the British enjoy their beverages, no longer is tea the king on the street.

Over the last few years there has been big changes in the UK regarding the way people have their hot beverages, and with these changes there are two new competitors in the island making their presence felt , and these two are loaded with the right fuel a busy city like London needs to get trough the day.
Their names are...