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...java. Thing is, if anything, the tea in those "genuinely local shops" was worse than the coffee. You could either take your tea "as it comes," which meant weak as dishwater. Or you could take it strong - which was, it was thought, how the working class took their cuppa, and hence how slumming members of the bourgeoisie such as George Orwell insisted on having it. In that case, you put one teaspoonful of leaves into the pot for each person drinking from it, and then added another teaspoonful "for the pot." The resulting brew would put hair on your chest...
...function before your morning cuppa joe? Bottoms up, says a new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine that found an unusual correlation between coffee consumption and a lower risk of Type 2 diabetes. Researchers tracked more than 126,000 subjects for 18 years and discovered that those who drank at least six cups (or 48 oz.) of caffeinated coffee a day significantly reduced their risk of diabetes--more than 50% in men and about 30% in women--compared with non--coffee drinkers. Doctors certainly don't claim that the brew is an elixir of health, but if you already...
...having a cuppa here, in fact, is a bit like forgetting to sample the wine on a tour of Loire Valley vineyards. When the bus deposited me on a dirt track without a single signpost or marker, it was naturally a pretty tea seller, with a baby in arms, who provided succor. Anita said she had lived at Top Station only since getting married. Previously, she had been a schoolteacher and had earned more in that profession than her husband did now. Serving masala chais with a faintly resigned air, she called her husband out to meet me. Much less...
...austere pastures of the Tibetan plateau and over one of the world's highest trekking passes, the Annapurna trail is dotted with charming teahouses and pretty stone hamlets, which means you will rarely walk for more than an hour before you find a place to pause for a cuppa or a rest room. And the plentiful lodges offer comfortable beds, hearty meals, a steady supply of chocolate bars and, most surprisingly, hot showers...
...fact, part of the charm, for Americans anyway, will be the authenticity of the modern English scene, most noticeably the lingo. But it never prevents you from figuring out what they're saying. Watson, a native of England, kindly includes a glossary for such phrases as "cuppa" and "five-a-side...