Tea leaf grading When crushed to make bagged teas, the tea is referred to as "broken", as in "broken orange pekoe" (BOP). These lower grades include fannings and dust, which are tiny remnants created in the sorting and crushing processes. Orange pekoe is referred to as "OP". The grading scheme also contains categories higher than OP, which are determined primarily by leaf wholeness and size. Broken, fannings and dust orthodox teas have slightly different grades. CTC teas, which consist of leaves mechanically rendered to uniform fannings, have yet another grading system. Orange pekoe (), also spelled pecco, or OP is a term used
A Quiet Drink has given up her job and is spending time at the library trying to educate herself. Eventually Steve and Claudia meet and go for 'a quiet drink' which has far-reaching consequences... A Quiet Drink A Quiet Drink, is the third novel by English author Deborah Moggach, first published in 1980. Unlike her previous two novels it departs from the autobiographical. The book is set in London and concerns Claudia a magazine editor whose husband has just left her, Steve Mullen a cosmetics rep, and his wife June. Claudia is still yearning after her husband but then finds herself a lodger,