T2: the book #blog12daysxmas Day 5

T2 has been an amazing Melbourne success story for co-founder, Maryanne Shearer. Originally operating from a shop in Brunswick Street Fitzroy with no staff and the founders' mothers out the back packing tea, T2 is now multinational with 70+ shops in Australia, New Zealand, UK and USA, an online store and over 3000 wholesale customers.

T2 set out to create passionate tea-drinkers amongst a younger generation. Today their iconic orange tea boxes are to be found everywhere. But how did it start and what is their story? This book has the answers to those questions as well a lot of information about the history of tea, where it is grown, different processing methods and different traditions assocated with tea drinking. 

The attractively produced Lantern book (a Penguin imprint) is well worth a read if you are interested in the history of your T2.