20.12.02

a true story?

Betjeman & Barton Master Tea Blenders, Paris.

"Founded in Paris in 1919, the Betjeman & Barton tea establishment quickly attracted both British visitors and French tea-lovers, and the business flourished.

As fate would have it, one of their tea suppliers fell in love with a beautiful Russian girl. He courted her with blends of tea to remind her of her homeland. Many years later, the widowed Mrs. Betjeman wished that Didier Jumeau-Lafond, son of the imaginative tea blender and the beautiful Russian emigrée, carry on the business, and it has remained a famliy-run company to this day.

Reeks of marketing to me. One can never tell these days what is a true story or a fabrication by PR writers such as I have been in my not too distant past. Advertising is fun, but only if you really like the product yourself, otherwise, I simply can't stomach it. The tea however, sits very well in my stomach - Eden Rose - Chinese black tea with a blend of rose petals, and scented with lavender and vanilla. If you want a story of the fabricated, yet imaginative kind however, read Scent.

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