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• Owner of Elmwood Inn Fine Teas and Benjamin Press
• Contributing Editor for TeaTime magazine
• Contributing Editor for TEA magazine
• Editorial Board for Fresh Cup magazine
• Tea Master for the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum
• Author of 13 books on tea

MSN calls Bruce Richardson "A leading tea expert involved in tea's American renaissance for over 20 years." The native Kentuckian is a writer, photographer, tea blender, and frequent guest speaker at tea events across the country. He can often be found appearing on television and radio talk shows, or as a guest speaker at professional seminars such as World Tea Expo.

Bruce was recently named Tea Master for the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum. He is defining tea's historical role in this iconic event that helped shape America's destiny.

He regularly visits Great Britain in his undending quest to discover new tea shops for the latest edition of his Great Tea Rooms of Britain. His other photo-guidebook, The Great Tea Rooms of America is in its fourth edition.  Bruce joined London's Jane Pettigrew in producing the latest two editions of 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.  His latest project was serving as designing editor for the 2011 Benjamin Press edition of Okakura Kakuzo's classic Book of Tea.

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

• Dallas Museum of Art
• Vizcaya Museum, Miami
• A Southern Season Cooking School, Chapel Hill NC
• St. Regis Hotel, NYC
• The Protocol School of Washington
• Pensacola Opera
• Food Network Expo, Washington DC
• Ask Heloise Radio Show
• J. B. Speed Museum, Louisville KY
• Louisville Junior League
• Harney & Sons Tea
• TeaTime magazine's An Occasion for Tea
• TEA Magazine
• The Washington-Duke Inn, Durham NC
• The Etiquette & Leadership Institute
• Edenton NC Speakers Series
• Jane Austen Society of Louisville
• Specialty Tea Institute/SCAA
• World Tea Expo
• University of Cincinnati School of Appied Sciences
• 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

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

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The Wall Street Journal interview

Bruce Richardson talks with National Geographic Traveler

Bruce Richardson talks with CNN

MTV Discovers Manly Teas with Bruce Richardson

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