Steeped in culture
It wasn’t so long ago that we invited each other over for tea, or arranged social outings in tearooms around town. Today, we talk of “going for coffee” or “meeting at a cafe” because the bean’s influence is so prevalent on our daily lives and vernacular. According to Roy Morgan Research, Australians still drink more than a cup of tea a day on average, but our tea culture seems to have vanished from the public consciousness.
David Lyons, tea consultant at 18ThirtyFour, says it’s not that Australia doesn’t have a modern tea culture but that, at present, it’s “confused”.
“Tea culture in Australia
