Tea in England

Tea is enjoyed all around the world. England is famous for their afternoon tea times. With their tea it is expected to also find finger sandwiches, scones and petit fours. Read more about English tea history below.

Europe did not encounter tea until 1610, Standage explains, when Portuguese traders in Macao sent a Dutch ship home with a batch and it eventually made its way to England in the 1650s. As the British Empire expanded, colonizing many parts of the world, so did its stronghold on the tea industry. The British East India Company counted on China as its sole supplier of tea until 1834, when it realized that tea grew naturally in a region in one of its own colonies: Assam, India. To this day, Assam is the biggest tea producing region in the world, and India is the biggest tea producing country in the world.

SRC: Read more about tea history at: BBC