Virtuoso Insights - June/July 2008 - (Page 35) High Tea Stefan Schulhof/gettyImages high Time for viCtoria’s reFineD traDition Proves tHe PerFeCt PiCk-Me-uP by Susan Hanson history tells us that we have Anna Maria, the seventh duchess of bedford, to thank for the tradition of afternoon high Tea. In the early 1800s, it was English custom to serve dinner quite late in the evening and the duchess, who grew rather hungry, would order a small meal of bread, butter, cakes, and other pastries as a midday pick-me-up. P Photo ©laura Totten Photography Virtuoso insights 35
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