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Ferruzzi, MG (2010). "The influence of beverage composition on delivery of phenolic compounds from coffee and tea". Physiol Behav. 100 (1): 33–41. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.01.035. PMID 20138903. S2CID 207373774. World's oldest tea found in Chinese emperor's tomb". Phys.org. 28 January 2016. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016 . Retrieved 22 July 2016. The oldest written reference to tea is from the year 59 BC.

Tea is now the second most popular beverage in the world after water, with two billion cups consumed each day globally. But it was only incorporated into the capitalist world system in the early 17th century. Pruess, Joanna (2006). Tea Cuisine: A New Approach to Flavoring Contemporary and Traditional Dishes. Globe Pequot. ISBN 978-1-59228-741-3.In Mali, gunpowder tea is served in series of three, starting with the highest oxidisation or strongest, unsweetened tea, locally referred to as "strong like death", followed by a second serving, where the same tea leaves are boiled again with some sugar added ("pleasant as life"), and a third one, where the same tea leaves are boiled for the third time with yet more sugar added ("sweet as love"). Green tea is the central ingredient of a distinctly Malian custom, the "Grin", an informal social gathering that cuts across social and economic lines, starting in front of family compound gates in the afternoons and extending late into the night, and is widely popular in Bamako and other large urban areas. [ citation needed] a b c Colleen Taylor Sen (2004). Food Culture in India. Greenwood Publishing Group. p.26. ISBN 978-0-313-32487-1. Archived from the original on 24 April 2016 . Retrieved 10 January 2016. Ironically, it was the British who introduced tea drinking to India, initially to anglicized Indians. Tea did not become a mass drink there until the 1950s when the India Tea Board, faced with a surplus of low-grade tea, launched an advertising campaign to popularize it in the north, where the drink of choice was milk. At one point, they animatedly demanded that the tea estate be sold to another owner—a wish that would be granted at the end of October.

UK: average cups of tea per day 2017 | Statista". www.statista.com. Archived from the original on 2 July 2019 . Retrieved 2 July 2019. So what is to be done if fair trade policies, changing modes of production, unions, lawsuits, the land rights movement, etc. aren’t improving conditions for tea workers on Darjeeling’s plantations?

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In the United States, 80% of tea is consumed as iced tea. [123] Sweet tea is native to the southeastern U.S. and is iconic in its cuisine. [124]

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Landscape photo of green, rolling hills on and around the Happy Valley Tea Estate in Darjeeling, India, on October 12, 2022. Photo by Saurav Sarkar. Happy Valley is located in northern West Bengal, the same state as Bangla-speaking Kolkata, but the lingua franca in the region is Nepali. Locals known as Indian Gorkhas (to distinguish them from Nepali Gorkhas) have been agitating for almost four decades to get their own state called Gorkhaland. First up is strength. A good English Breakfast tea should be strong and rich. Nice and punchy. But of course it should be really refreshing. It’s the perfect blend to wake up to for these two reasons, but also can be drunk all day long. How to make a perfect cuppa". BBC News. 25 June 2003. Archived from the original on 22 July 2006 . Retrieved 28 July 2006.