I have no argument with Orwell's excellent essay on tea. Though I put the milk in first, it warms up faster. "If you look up ‘tea’ in the first cookery book that comes to hand you will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most you will find a few lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling on several of the most important points. This is curious, not only because tea is one of the mainstays of civilization in this country, as well as in Éire, Australia, and New