Linda Hewitt - Biography
Description: Linda Hewitt is the author of several publications on tea:
Those born and bred in the Southern part of the United States grow up with iced tea, a delight in warm weather but welcome all the year round. Hot tea is less common. Even those adults who like it - my mother, for example - rarely offer it to children. The Christmas I was seven, however, I developed a raging case of measles the day school holidays began. In the worst possible mood - I mean, measles for Christmas, really? - I was probably the crankiest patient ever, whining constantly, tossing covers off me
Then, I knew nothing about tea, of course, other than that some people preferred the nationally ubiquitous Lipton while others demanded locally more popular Royal Cup, both blends of black teas. (This was before artisan, herbal, and spice-based teas were widely available, not to mention green, white, pu-erh, yellow, oolong, Ceylon, Darjeeling, Assam, and the like.)
Nor did I know that tea is, after water, the most popular beverage in the world. Or that genuine tea must be made with the leaf of the tea plant - camellia sinensis - but that specialty teas can be made with just about anything.
Linda Hewitt - Biography