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Afternoon Tea Set

Afternoon Tea Set by leftylaney, via Flickr

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Черный чай

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Types Of Teas

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Tea. Yes.

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What Tea Rituals Looks Like Around the World

They may not have discovered it, but no one (save the Chinese) loves tea more than the British. The United Kingdom’s two greatest contributions to tea are in fact relatively recent ones. The first, Earl Grey—a blend of black tea given a distinctive floral note from bergamot oil—was invented for the 2nd Earl Grey in the 1830s. The second, teatime—a light meal usually served at around 4 P.M. and not to be confused with high tea, which occurs between 5 and 7 P.M. and includes a hot dish—is generally attributed to Anna Russell, Duchess of Bedford, circa 1841. Two centuries later, they’ve become as indelibly associated with Great Britain as the Queen—a tea drinker herself, of course.

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What Tea Rituals Looks Like Around the World

If hot pink is India’s signature color, then the scent of chai might be its signature fragrance. Every block in every town has its own chai wallah who makes his proprietary version of chai, a black tea—usually Assam—slow-brewed with milk

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What Tea Rituals Looks Like Around the World

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Different Types Of Tea

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Japanese Tea Ceremony

Japanese Tea

What Tea Rituals Looks Like Around the World

Perhaps no culture on earth loves rituals as much as the Japanese do. There, the things we in the West consider forgettable, even mundane—thearrival of the full moon, the budding of spring’s first blossoms, the changing of the leaves from green to gold—are cause for celebration and memorialization. So it’s little wonder that the drinking of a cup of tea should be treated with similar formality and elegance. “The tea ceremony was initially an elite pursuit, one that provided a forum for the ruler

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What Tea Rituals Looks Like Around the World

Not to make light of colonization, but along with the less-than-happy changes wreaked by the British upon Africa, one of the sublime things they did introduce was afternoon tea. While tea is not widely drunk throughout eastern (and southern) Africa, the continent didn