#thomas sullivan

The last two weeks flew by. My kids went back to school this week; they are attending the same school for the first time since elementary school, my own dear mother, that school, and I am relieved, if only temporarily from driving duties. We are making pizzas in an hour or two to celebrate the first Friday of their school year (we make pizzas every Friday as a nifty fridge clearing activity, but…

It is thought that it was Thomas Sullivan who accidentally invented tea bags in 1908: he had sent his customers samples of tea enclosed in silk bags, to be able to taste the product before buying larger quantities. He would never have thought that customers would put the silk sachets directly into the infusion.