Read interviews with

Bruce Richardson

Listen to a one hour

interview with the

Richardsons on

Public Radio.

Listen now.

MSN calls Bruce Richardson "A leading tea expert involved in tea's American renaissance for over 20 years."

He is a writer, photographer, tea blender, and frequent guest speaker at tea conferences across the country. He spends much of his time educating Americans in the art of celebrating afternoon tea and can often be found appearing on television and radio talk shows, or as a guest speaker at professional seminars such as World Tea Expo.  He has served on the Advisory Committee for STI (Specialty Tea Institute of America) and the Editorial Board of Fresh Cup magazine.  Bruce was recently named the Perfect Cup columnist for TeaTime magazine.

Bruce visits Great Britain annually researching new tea shops for the latest edition of his Great Tea Rooms of Britain and Tea in the City: London books. His other photo-guidebook, The Great Tea Rooms of America is in its fourth edition.  Bruce joined Jane Pettigrew (London) in co-authoring The New Tea Companion for The National Trust of England. He teamed up again with Jane and Elizabeth Knight to photograph and produce a three-volume set of travel guides to tea in New York, London and Paris entitled Tea in the City. No one has visited and documented more tea rooms worldwide.

Bruce Richardson was a member of the STI trade mission to Sri Lanka in 2003 and the STI mission to India in 2004.  His photographs of tea workers and tea gardens in those two countries are featured in a traveling photography exhibit and the accompanying book Looking Deeply into Tea.

A lifelong educator, Bruce earned a masters degree in choral conducting and music education.  For fifteen years, he founded and directed the Danville Children's Choir and was the co-founder and past president of the Boyle County chapter of Habitat for Humanity.  For seven years, he volunteered his leadership skills as mayor of the historic village of Perryville, Kentucky. His Mayor's Cup tea is Elmwood Inn Fine Teas' signature blend.

Bruce Richardson's speaking engagements have included events for the following organizations:

• Cincinnati Flower Show
• Dallas Museum of Art
• A Southern Season Cooking School, Chapel Hill NC
• St. Regis Hotel, NYC
• The Protocol School of Washington
• East Tennessee Historical Society
• Pensacola (FL) Opera
• Springfield (OH) Art Museum
• Food Network Expo, Washington DC
• Ask Heloise Radio Show
• Alameda County (CA) Public Library
• J. B. Speed Museum, Louisville KY
• Headley-Whitney Museum
• Central Baptist Hospital
• Kentucky History Museum
• Louisville Junior League
• Harney & Sons Tea
• TeaTime magazine's An Occasion for Tea
• TEA Magazine
• American Tea Society
• The Etiquette & Leadership Institute
• Jane Austen Society of Louisville
• Specialty Tea Institute/SCAA
• World Tea Expo
• University of Cincinnati School of Appied Sciences
• Southeastern USA Hospital Volunteers Convention
• International Council of Shopping Centers, Las Vegas
• NASCORE Denver
• The Book and the Cook, Philadelphia
• WHAS-TV Louisville
• WFPL-TV Louisville
• WHYY-FM Philadelphia
• WUKY-FM Lexington
• WLEX-YV Lexington

Bruce Richardson was the guest speaker for a recent Jane Austen Birthday Celebration sponsored by the Kentucky chapter of The Jane Austen Society. See Online Video.

For more information about booking Bruce Richardson as a speaker at your event, contact Media@elmwoodinn.com

Bruce Richardson talks with CNN

Bruce Richardson talks with MSN

Bruce Richardson talks with USA Today