Why kindness can help businesses grow. 24 December 2012Last updated at 19:35 ET By Peter Day Global Business, BBC World Service Tea and kindness: Good deeds can help businesses thrive Do not make tea with boiling water. That is what the Rare Tea Lady told me the other afternoon. A shocking statement for someone like me brought up from childhood to take the teapot to the kettle to ensure that the tea leaves were woken up by the hottest possible infusion. "It was World War II propaganda because we had cheap industrial tea," said the Rare Tea Lady, Henrietta Lovell. "In order to get good flavour out of it, you needed to use boiling water because they say boiling water dissolves the tannins - the strong bitter flavours.
" But real tea has lots more taste than that bitterness, and that is what Henrietta Lovell has built her Rare Tea Company around. She is a tea fanatic who has turned her fanaticism into a neat little business run from her flat just close to Primrose Hill in north London. Encounter Charm Clever Why? Being good Personal.
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