Grown at 7600 ft in the high hills of Ilam, the unique geographic location and micro climate provide these teas rare and distinctive flavours. And with a workforce consisting of 99% women, the SiddhaDevi tea estate provides employment to over 200 women in the surrounding community.
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In the very early days of Darjeeling, there were a number of industries suggested that the hill station might be suitable for including cattle and sheep farming, timber and tanning. Notably, it was suggested that beer could be produced of a quality to match that of England:
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After the Opium Wars, Robert Fortune ventured into the Chinese interior to collect samples of plants as well as tea plants and seeds. In this extract of his travels he recounts how he returned from the tea district near Sung-lo, in the modern day province of Anhui. He is now on Kintang Island, off the coast of present day Ningbo, before returning to Hong Kong with his finds.
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In this excerpt, William, renowned for his untidy hair, his large appetite and the many exploits of himself and the rebels, is treated to the exceptional cooking of tea cakes by Miss Smith.
A prominent importer, broker, wholesaler and retailer of tea in late Victorian times, this company published a catalogue describing its operations. There are sections describing the Mincing Lane Market in London, which at that time handled sugar, coffee, tobacco, spices, cocoa and wine, as well as tea! Within its pages, there are also sections describing how tea is grown, processed, transported to destination and made available to its customers.
