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Reading about otheR cultuReS Practice 8

Ludic and literary environment
Specific PracticeS: Read brief essays to compare cultural traditions.

Essays extracts

sketchy

A Nice Cup of Tea teapot
tasteless
pages 93 and 94
By George Orwell (1946) Glossary on
If you look up 'tea' in the first cookery book that
comes to hand, you will probably find that it mainstay (n.):
pilar
is unmentioned; or at most you will find a few outstanding
(adj.): notable
lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling acutely (adj.):
on several of the most important points. extremadamente

This is curious, not only because tea is one of the mainstays
of civilization in this country, as well as in Eire, Australia and
New Zealand, but because the best manner of making it is
the subject of violent disputes.

When I look through my own recipe for the perfect cup of tea,
I find no fewer than eleven outstanding points. On perhaps
two of them, there would be pretty general agreement, but at
least four others are acutely controversial. Here are my own
eleven rules, every one of which I regard as golden:

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