Posted by: Terpsichore Diotima, Lusitana Combatente on: 26/01/2009
Five oclock tea, by Mary Cassat (Como Mary Cassat é inconfundível!)
The wide spread “english custom” of drinking tea in the afternoon, with careful atention and preparation, is an old portuguese tradition, and was brought to England by the Portuguese.
Tea drinking was introduced to the British court by portuguese Catarina de Bragança, who married King [...]


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