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Afternoon Tea at The Chancery Rosewood, London

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For someone who is well educated, I have my moments of utter idiocy.

Most recently, I was standing in London’s Grosvenor Square awaiting my tour and tea at The Chancery Rosewood, musing that the US Embassy was located somewhere in the vicinity. I looked at all four sides of the Square, trying to identify the embassy, before finally realizing that I was looking directly at it.

And that The Chancery Rosewood was, indeed, the very same building.

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Why Afternoon Tea?

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What is it about this quintessentially British habit?

I’ve lived in the United States for more than three decades, but I still find myself wandering absent-mindedly into the kitchen sometime between three and four in the afternoon, thinking that now would be a very good time for a cup of tea.

Friends and colleagues invariably smile and tell me it’s because I’m British.

I’ve always resisted that explanation. After all, I haven’t drunk milk in years, so I’m more likely to be reaching for a cup of ginger or herbal tea than a pot of Assam. And, thanks to my years studying nutrition, I’m not necessarily looking for the obligatory cake or biscuit to accompany it.

And yet, there I am. Tea kettle on.

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