Cheers to high tea

By Marina Williams
Updated August 5 2015 - 1:35pm, first published July 7 2015 - 3:30pm

Afternoon tea has been a tradition in cultures for centuries. With changing social mores in the UK in the 1860s dinner was being held later in the evening, creating a long gap for nourishment between it and lunch. So afternoon tea became a necessity in historical times.

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