The Proper Way to Drink Tea

photo of Mr Tea from LennyMud's Etsy shop

Anyone who follows our twitter feed knows that we love ourselves some tea. We've personally pimped Remedy Tea and Natur'el Tea in this space before, and I love both World Spice and Peet's teas. Susan's partial to Urban Tea, a company based in nearby Kirkland, WA. So when we saw Christopher Hitchens writing about none other than George Orwell's rules for tea, well, there may have been squeeing.

Not that I follow all the rules, of course. I do use a teapot that catches the loose tea leaves and I don't appreciate either milk or sugar in my tea. I like it black (or green as the case may be since that's what I seem to mostly drink these days). But I cannot recommend enough using a tall cylindrical cup instead of a wide one, or brewing loose tea leaves in a pot.

Do you have any rules for when you drink tea?