![]() It is popular in the Pacific Northwest and Canada's West Coast. Variations of the London fog involve substituting the tea leaves and using milk alternatives. The basic ingredients of a London fog are Earl Grey tea, vanilla flavouring, raw honey (optional), and milk of choice. ![]() Ingredients Earl Grey tea, used in the preparation of London fog, before milk is added. The term "fog" refers to the steamed milk. Despite conceiving the drink herself, Loria does not know who created the name. ![]() After inventing the drink, she began ordering the drink at other cafes and recommending it to others. Loria, who was pregnant at the time, frequented Vancouver's Buckwheat Cafe. It was invented in Vancouver, Canada, in the 1990s by Mary Loria. Read more Liz Clayton on Sprudge.Tea and steamed milk-based drink A London fog from Tumbleweed Coffee House in Nanton, Alberta.Ī London fog is a hot tea-based drink that consists of Earl Grey tea, steamed milk, and a sweetener. Liz Clayton is the associate editor at Sprudge Media Network. Sweeten to taste to finish, and picture yourself on the misty shores of London. What is a London Fog a bold, sweet, and flowery cup I steep dried lavender flowers along with Earl Grey Tea, which has notes of bergamot oil and edible blue. (Some people like to add lavender-we won’t stop them!) While some recipes call for steeping the Earl Grey first (preparing it as a proper tea) before adding steamed milk, others-like Loria’s original-simply add the teabag to a glass of steamed milk. Depending on your milk steaming technology, your results may veer away from the drink’s original intent, but you can give it a go with the building blocks of Earl Grey, milk or milk substitute, vanilla, and sweetener. One local source we consulted told Sprudge that they had “no idea what this is” and were “appalled at the idea of a lot of milk with Earl Grey,” and added that furthermore they had “never seen it on a menu… never seen anyone drink one,” and “had no idea it existed.” Some online resources purport that the drink exists in various parts of the UK under the name the “Vancouver Fog,” however this claim is unconfirmed.Īs to London, Sprudge was unable to identify any cafes serving a London Fog in London. While the London Fog is most ubiquitous in the Pacific Northwest, it’s been spotted all over, on cafe menus from Calgary to New York to Kansas City. “It was literally me thinking, oh you know what would be good?” “I didn’t set out to invent a drink,” says Loria, whose first child-the one who inspired the drink in the first place-turns 25 this year. ![]() She was informed of a Wikipedia citation at some point, naming her as the drink’s originator-and the details sounded correct-but she still doesn’t know exactly who credited her. Yet though it’s all true that Loria was the first person anyone knows of to order this drink, this history story is a bit of a mystery: she doesn’t know how the drink was named, nor does she know how anyone traced the story back to her. (Starbucks introduced its own Teavana® London Fog Latte in 2009, which is made with tea, 2% milk, and vanilla syrup.) Soon enough, the drink began appearing on menus and had spread to other cafes-especially in the Pacific Northwest-and remains a common menu item in North America today. She began ordering the drink at other shops as well-”I remember trying to explain it to a Starbucks barista, and they were like ‘what do you want me to do!?’,” she says. She’d then sweeten the latte with vanilla sugar. Loria could tolerate tea, so she began asking baristas at her local, Buckwheat Cafe, to brew her a steamed milk latte with a bag of Earl Grey. ![]()
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