Put the Kettle On: The Irish Love Affair With Tea

How do you take your tea? Tea fanatic Juanita Browne investigates tea habits and the warmth, the comfort, and the goodness in every brew across Ireland. She discovers tea is more than a simple drink, meeting characters such as tea addicts, teabag haters, tea connoisseurs, a teapot collector, a `Teaseach' and the makers of a `teabag tablecloth'. We are reminded of tea rationing during WWII, tea drunk from bottles in the hayfield, and sweet billycans on the bog. These parallel worlds are reflected in this book with tea always in the background.