Brits find US advice on making tea hard to swallow
London (AFP) - A US professor's suggestion that salt and warm milk should be added to tea caused a collective shriek of horror in Britain on Thursday. The US embassy weighed in on the storm in a tea cup by suggesting brewing up in the microwave, which drew a rebuff from a top British government department. Michelle Francl who teaches chemistry at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania says in her new book "Steeped: The Chemistry of Tea" that salt can rescue an overbrewed cup. "A pinch of salt is not even enough to taste and it turns out salt can moderate your perception of bitterness," she told th...