The menu at Ravenna’s Queen Mary Tea Room helpfully describes afternoon tea as a meal designed for “high-society ladies” looking to fill “the void between lunch and dinner,” presumably in comfortable, regular-level chairs. High tea, on the other hand, dates back to workmen of a bygone century. It’s served at high tables, the kind you find in a pub “to not dirty chairs and table linens with their work boots.”
Might that confuse barbaric coffee-loving Americans? Perhaps. But nomenclature aside, the ritual of afternoon tea has a lot going for it. It’s a holiday tradition, a fun event with kids—perhaps a way to commune with
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