| It's tea time at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party
EUREKA -- For 10 years, Chiyomi Thompson has been brewing teas, baking scones and serving petite sandwiches to patrons young and old at her tea shop, Mad Hatter's Tea Party, on E Street. In addition to serving assorted teas and delicacies -- including scones, sandwiches, quiche and other fare -- to folks who come in throughout the day, Thompson also offers a traditional high tea five days a week, all from a cozy dining room. And, she single-handedly prepares each morsel herself. The history of tea is a long one, according to Stash Tea's Web site (www.stashtea.com). However, "high tea" didn't come onto the tea scene until the mid-1800s when Anna, the Duchess of Bedford, experienced a "sinking feeling" during the long wait between breakfast and dinner, which was served well into the evening.
Anita Roddick, Social Activist, Body Shop Founder, Dies at 64
Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Anita Roddick, who mixed economic success with environmental awareness to found beauty-products retailer Body Shop International Plc, has died. She was 64. Roddick, who announced in February that she had hepatitis C, died of a brain hemorrhage in Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., yesterday, her family said in a statement. ``She changed the world of business with her campaigns for social and environmental responsibility,'' Body Shop Chairman Adrian Bellamy said. Roddick opened her first Body Shop store in 1976. The chain consists of more than 2,100 stores in 55 countries and was purchased by L'Oreal SA, the world's largest cosmetics maker, in 2006. Long before the word was fashionable, Anita Roddick was ``green.'' She encouraged customers to return their plastic bottles for refills and used natural ingredients such as bananas, mangoes and tea-tree oil in her products.
|
