Tea Nation: The Drink We Can't Get Enough Of
We're going gaga over a beverage that's
healthy, heady and delicious. Here, some passionate proponents share why it's
teatime in America.
Humans have
rarely agreed on any subject the way we agree on tea—a beverage that the
Chinese, British, Thais, Kuwaitis, South Africans, Sri Lankans and Gambians all
find delicious. Tea is a global infatuation that spans cultures and continents,
savored by royals (Louis XIV), rock stars (the Beatles) and everyone in between
(like the family in India who served Oprah the best chai she'd ever tasted).
The most popular beverage in the world besides water, tea is in many places a
ritual, a time of day, a religion. In the United States, however, it has long
been the forgotten sister of coffee, that pulse-quickening enabler of our
national religion: work. If coffee is a blunt instrument with which to attack
one's to-do list, tea has seemed in comparison both fanciful and bland, a fusty
affectation of the mother country and an inferior caffeine delivery system.
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