Renowned Tea Expert At Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum

From the Lockwood Mathews Mansion Museum:

March 2 2020

Norwalk, Conn. – Ellen Easton, author and leader in the lifestyle industry, is a renowned authority on the art of Afternoon Tea. On Sunday, April 26, 2020, 2-4 p.m., the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will feature Ms. Easton for an illustrated talk, demo, and book signing titled, The Artistry of Afternoon Tea: Rituals, Etiquette, Food and Fashion, sponsored by Bulova.com and whatscookingamerica.com.

Ms. Easton is a consultant to the hospitality, food, retail and special event industries whose clients have included The Waldorf Astoria and Plaza hotels and Bergdorf Goodman.

The event will be chaired by Trustee Hunter Arton who noted, "What a treat to have a renowned etiquette expert educate and entertain us on the details of tea time! We are excited to offer our guests an opportunity to purchase Ms. Easton’s signed book, Afternoon Tea: Tips Terms and Traditions, which she will inscribe with a personal message, upon request, after her talk.” The talk will start promptly at 2 p.m. with refreshments, book-signing and a Silent Auction following the talk and demo at 3 p.m.

Easton’s family can trace its tea roots to Austrian Empire’s Baron Solomon Benedict de Worms (1801-1882), who, with his brothers Maurice and Gabriel, settled in Ceylon, where they developed in 1839 one of the biggest and best-cultivated tea plantations on the island.

Ms. Easton’s lineage includes Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon, whose home, Highclere Castle, is now known as the setting for television’s Downton Abbey, and Louis (1888-1940) and Benjamin Hirschhorn, pioneers of the tea bag industry. In 1913, their New York company, The National Urn Bag Co. developed the first industrial tea bag that revolutionized the ancient way of making tea.

Ellen credits her mother, Reva Paul, the internationally acclaimed sugar artist whose heralded hand-decorated confections were celebrated in the tea world for over five decades, for introducing her to tea with love.

The Museum’s 2020 cultural and educational programs are made possible in part by generous funding from LMMM’s Founding Patrons: The Estate of Mrs. Cynthia Clark Brown; LMMM’s Leadership Patrons: The Sealark Foundation; LMMM’s 2020 Season Distinguished Benefactors: The City of Norwalk and The Maurice Goodman Foundation; LMMM’s 2020 Distinguished Benefactors for Education: The Daphne Seybolt Culpeper Memorial Foundation, Inc. The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum is a National Historic Landmark. For more information on schedules and programs please visit www.lockwoodmathewsmansion.com, e-mail info@lockwoodmathewsmansion.com, or call 203-838-9799.

This press release was produced by the Lockwood Mathews Mansion Museum. The views expressed here are the author’s own.