Aiming for a career in journalism, I gained unpaid work placements at one big media company, and then another: fetching coffee and tea, opening the mail, and on thrilling occasions, being allowed to research and write things.
For coffee, we headed around the corner to the original Peet's Coffee and Tea, opened in 1966, which became the model for Starbucks when, in the early 1970's, its owner, Alfred Peet, supplied three employees, who were about to go into business on their own, with his roasted beans and helped them find equipment.
Freshly galvanized, I put pandora on shuffle, poured another glass of sweet tea, opened a brand new blank word doc, cracked my knuckles, clicked chair into its upright-most position and started clicking away at keys.
I watched Greg Mortenson, the famed author of "Three Cups of Tea," open one of his schools for girls in this remote Afghan village in the Hindu Kush mountains.
Fix yourself a warm cup of tea, open your browser, and make this season one that makes a difference.
At the end of the year, when a second Starbucks tea house opens, in Seattle, it will become clearer whether Americans are ready to fall in love with tea again.
Nom Wah Tea Parlor opened on Doyers in 1920, at No. 15, right on the angle.
Paper & Tea, which opened its doors on Dec. 1, is a far cry from your typical over-the-counter — almost pharmaceutical — approach to tea shops.
On 3 January 1915, Charles Burnham, a Buckinghamshire fruit grower, sat down with a mug of tea and opened his copy of the News of the World.
