Tea and Rock ‘n Roll at the MET
Sometimes it’s good to play hooky for a special afternoon, which is exactly what happened this week when several of our Three Tomatoes Insiders Club members joined me and tea expert Ellen Easton for a delightful afternoon at the MET. If you are not an Insiders’ Club member, please join us.
Ellen Easton, who is also a contributor to The Three Tomatoes, arranged a very special tea for us in the MET dining room and shared her wonderful expertise on the history of tea, tea drinking, and etiquette too. We were all enthralled. She also made our beautiful place cards and shared some of her homemade tea treats with us too. After the tea, she escorted several Tomatoes on a curated tour of “tea” items at the MET. And a few of us also popped in to the METS fabulous Instruments of Rock and Roll.
Here are a few highlights of a delightful afternoon.
Ellen Easton, author of Afternoon Tea~Tips, Terms and Traditions(RED WAGON PRESS), an afternoon tea authority, lifestyle and etiquette industry leader, keynote speaker and product spokesperson, is a hospitality, design, and retail consultant whose clients have included the Waldorf=Astoria, the Plaza and Bergdorf Goodman. Easton’s family traces their tea roots to the early 1800s, when ancestors first introduced tea plants from India and China to the Colony of Ceylon, thus building one of the largest and best cultivated teas estates on the island.
