2012-11-06
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Tea, Coffee and Milk Consumption, from Our Private Lives, posted by Michael Stoll on Flickr:
Here duly charted is a major difference in the private lives of Britons and Americans. Cups represent pounds of tea or coffee, and since a pound of tea goes farther, Britons probably drink more tea than Americans do coffee.. As for gallons of milk, Switzerland sets a target for all.
From the book America and Britain: Three Volumes in One, by P Sargant Florence; Lella Secor Florence; K B Smellie. Book published 1946; figures from 1930-1934.
2012-10-31
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If you think buying coffee has become way too pretentious an endeavor and deserves to be knocked down a peg or four, you’re not alone.
In fact, you have an entire British department store chain behind you.
More from the Mirror (which broke the story) and, in usual bewildering style, the Express:
WHEN we were a nation of tea drinkers we didn’t need a dictionary just to order a cuppa.
Now that the coffee revolution has hit our high streets it’s all become very confusing with cappuccinos, mochas and macchiatos – to name just a few.
But don’t worry, high-street retailer Debenhams is leading the way with a new-look menu that does away with all those coffee-snob pretensions.
2012-03-20
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Tea cup and saucer, £27.50, plate, £27.50 and teapot, £65, from alimiller.co.uk. (via)
Weirdly, the Observer doesn’t mention the fact this is as used by Sherlock. Personally, I like the isobars, but the ships and crowns are a bit twee.
2012-02-22
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Poster designed for an unidentified client. A primarily yellow, blue and red design, incorporating a black and white photograph of the singer Gracie Fields drinking a cup of tea and a blue and white graphic of an anthropomorphised teapot holding a top hat. Signed and dated ‘E. McKnight Kauffer 36’
I have a tea-towel based on this design, and Mr T. Pott always makes me happy.
(Oddly the store doesn’t link to an image, but Google Images found it anyway, on the V&A’s own server. Websites are odd sometimes.)
2011-12-03
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The objective of Utanalog by Unfold is to return the iconographic Utah Teapot model to its roots as a piece of functional dishware while showing its status as an icon of the digital world.
Shame it’s so expensive (€299) but it’s a lovely idea.
2011-06-17
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2011-01-10
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tea, etc. (by Prof. Michael Stoll) (via mondoagogo’s faves):
From the 1936 statistical book “The Home Market”. Symbols and Illustrations by Gerd Arntz.
2011-01-04
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Christopher Hitchens: How to make a decent cup of tea, following George Orwell’s golden rules in Slate.
The saddest thing about this paragraph for me is that, with the spread of Starbucks, Costa, Caffe Nero and their ilk, the same sentiment applies in London as much as it does here. At least there are still greasy spoons, if you look.
