This episode features our very first interview, and it's with Gail Carriger, a novelist, archeologist, and tea aficionado. She's best known for her Parasol Protectorate series, which is a steampunk comedy romance adventure series featuring the tea-addicted Alexia Tarabotti. You can find out more about her and her works at gailcarriger.com.

A complaint about how tea is treated in restaurants.

Links:

• Tea Time
• Tea Cellar

Earl Grey. What is it? Where did it come from? And why does it, sometimes, fill me with rage?

How I make tea, and rage against frilly tea cozies.

Links:

• The Royal Society of Chemistry's "How To Make A Perfect Cup of Tea" (pdf)
• Tea Time

Credits:

Ominous by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution 3.0.
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In which we discuss what tea is and is not.