Ceylon Tea: The Trade That Made a Nation
The Colombo Tea Traders’ Association will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Ceylon tea on July 20th with the launch of an illustrated history entitled Ceylon Tea: The Trade That Made a Nation. This art-quality large-format illustrated book has been authored by Richard Simon with Dominic Sansoni as Illustrations Editor, while the design has been fashioned by Sebastian Posingis.
Aficionados of Sri Lankan history are in for a treat. A FACEBOOK page is already in place https://www.facebook.com/Sinnedorai/?view_public_for=136713836896307
Ceylon Tea: The Trade that Made a Nation
Text by Richard Simon
Picture research by Dominic Sansoni
Project co-ordination & design by Sebastian Posingis
Printed by Tien Wah Press, Singapore 2017
ISBN 978-955-7394-00-8
© The Colombo Tea Traders’ Association 2017
All rights reserved.
The pictorial illustrations below are NOT from the book –buy the book to savour its illustrative treats
Immigrant Indian Tamil plantation labour among immature tea bushes (opinion from Dushy Perera) —Pic from Palinda De Silva’s store of images
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Sri Lankan Tea was known as the “best in class” Orthodox tea in the world. Orthodox referring to the type of manufacture utilized. We concentrated on the Quality of tea produced. We had dedicated people in charge of the tea estates, who knew how best to produce high quality teas. We had people like Merrill J. Fernando of Dilmah Tea, who resisted the importation of low quality tea from China and other places being blended with high quality Sri Lankan Tea, merely to bring down the cost of production of Sri Lankan tea and make a profit. They were great Tea Tasters. Alas, we no longer produce the high quality teas we produced in the past.