Tracing Tea in the News
September 2008
‘Tracing Tea’ :
Director, students share across the globe
Max Lovell-Hoare is on what can only be described as the world’s most ambitious field trip.
The documentary film director and his crew will drive from Darjeeling, India, to London, England, through 18 Asian and European countries, to investigate tea, travel and culture, and they are taking a seventh-grade class from Mountain View’s Graham Middle School along for the ride....
August 2008
Tea on wheels...
KOLKATA, Aug. 22: India’s tea exports may have declined but tea to the English is still picnic outdoors. A nine-member group, comprising four students and the rest technicians travelling from Darjeeling to London, through a documentary, Tracing Tea, ....
August 2008
An Epic Journey, Tracing Tea in Pursuit of the Ultimate Cuppa
How far would you go for the peerfect cup of tea?. Across the street?. To the end of the block?. How about 15,000 miles? ....
August 2008
An 15,000km trip follows the history of tea across world
A GRADUATE has embarked on a 15,000km journey across 15 countries in a motorised rickshaw for a film tracing the cultural roots of tea. ....
August 2008
An Epic Journey, Tracing Tea touring Darjeeling
As part of a project titled Tracing Tea, four students and a film vrew are following the leaf from Darjeeling's Makaibari Estate, through 18 tea-drinking nations to Britain. ....
August 2008
A 15,000km trip for a cup of tea
A GROUP of adventurers has begun a seven-month expedition exploring the world’s tea routes – in a tuk tuk. ...
August 2008
Tuk-tuk travels to trace tea
A tea-mad Isleworth man is preparing to hit the road in a tiny tuk-tuk to trace the popular beverage's long history ...
July 2008
Tea Tasting at the Top
In July Brenda and Jessica from Tea at the Top (top of the Antiques Markets in Catherine Street) held two tea tasting sessions in conjunction with 'Tracing Tea' an organisation that, remarkably, is taking two tuk-tuks across 15,000 miles overland from Darjeeling to London, followed by a professional film crew to record this incredible Journey.
February 2008
A London Taxi in Tehran
Where are you from? England? ...Good! Welcome to Iran! Leaning from out of their car windows, this friendly call followed us down every street in Teheran. A second later our new acquaintances, ... Read full article
11 May 2008
'Tea with Mussolini' museum in a stew
A London entrepreneur is drawing plans to safeguard an internationally renowned colection that pays homage to the tea trade, following the death of the man who assembled it ... Read full article
July 2007
Tea Holidays
When considering the tea bag or glass of chai in their hand, few people think of anywhere other than Assam and Darjeeling; such is the hold that India has on popular imagination. It is well-known that Assam's tea plant
8 March 2007
Students plan 10,000-mile tea break to bag rickshaw record
A group of Cambridge University undergraduates plan to travel from Calcutta to Cambridge by rickshaw in a recordbreaking gesture of appreciation for the great British cup of tea.
The six students started their journey on
the 23 February and will spend 160 days on
a ten thousand mile route tracing tea’s
cultural history. Far from simply jumping in a
jeep, however, they plan on making the
entire journey in three-wheeled motorised
rickshaws with a top speed of 30mph. If
successful, they will break the record for the
longest distance ever covered in their
(somewhat bumpy!) chosen form of
transport. ... Read full article