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    Quilp, the epitome of evil in Charles Dickens' <em>The Old Curiosity Shop</em>, seen here with Little Nell, is a dwarf with the head of a giant and a "few discolored fangs" for teeth. But his most grotesque trait is his trick of drinking "boiling tea wit
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    When Tea Reaches Its Boiling Point In Fiction, So Too May The Story

    May 28, 2019
    Across tea-drinking cultures, writers have milked hot tea for all its worth to add a splash of narrative panache to comic or erotic scenes or to build mood, momentum and character.
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    A satire of women's social discourse in the Queen Anne period depicts six women taking tea in a parlor, with figures on the left signifying hidden emotions and power struggles behind a genteel facade. Circa 1710.
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    The Real 'Favourite' Of Queen Anne's Era? Tea, And The Gossip That Swirled Around It

    Feb 19, 2019
    The Oscar-nominated film has reignited interest in the life (and love interests) of a corpulent, gouty, queen who liked chocolate more than tea. So why are Queen Anne and tea-drinking so closely tied?
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    In downtown Yangon, customers visit Rangoon Tea House — an example of a tea shop in Myanmar that is exploring new styles.
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    The Politics Of Myanmar's Changing Tea Culture

    Dec 05, 2017
    Myanmar's tea shops have long been central as public spaces to meet and talk, especially during the military regime. But with the country's "opening" to Western influence, their prominence is fading.
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    Pu'er is routinely compressed into cakes, called <em>bings</em>, and wrapped in paper printed with the name of the tea.
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    Why Pu'er, A Complex Tea, Draws Rapt Fans And Big Dollars

    Mar 14, 2017
    Grown in China's remote Yunnan Province, this legendary, fermented dark tea changes as it ages. Like a fine wine, pu'er is sipped, savored and collected by devotees.
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    Cows, which provide organic manure for the estate, wander the property freely and occasionally trample tea plants.
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    PHOTOS: In Sri Lanka's Tea Paradise, A Social Enterprise Is Brewing

    Feb 28, 2017
    The island nation is one of the world's biggest exporters of tea, an industry that employs a sizable part of the population. We visit one organic tea farm that shares revenues with its workers.
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    Adele performs onstage during the Grammy Awards on February 12, 2017.
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    The First #BoycottAdele Wasn't Over A Grammy, But On How To Make Tea

    Feb 14, 2017
    Calls for a boycott are not new for Adele. And now, embroiled in the politics of both left and right, she will likely think longingly back to her first, uncomplicated boycott — about her tea-making.
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    Baskets full of fresh tea leaves are sorted at a Lipton tea plantation in Ceylon circa 1900.
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    How Lipton Built An Empire By Selling 'Farm To Table' Tea

    Oct 25, 2016
    Lipton is just about synonymous with industrial Big Tea these days. So you might be surprised to learn that once upon a time, Lipton was known for selling tea direct from its own gardens.
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    Early autumn flush teas ready for tasting in a Darjeeling garden. Each day's output is immediately sampled.  Autumn flush teas can run to bright amber, even burgundy, in color.
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    Autumn Flush: The Best Darjeeling Tea You'll (Likely Never) Taste

    Oct 04, 2016
    Darjeeling is the "Champagne of teas," sold by distinct harvest season, or flush. But while many of India's top tea experts point to the autumn flush as their favorite, those teas are largely unknown.
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    The only commercial tea plantation in the U.S. is located on Wadmalaw Island, S.C. It makes tea from bushes descended from plants first brought here in the 1700s.
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    Yes, America Has A Working Tea Plantation. We Visited It

    Aug 23, 2016
    America's only large-scale commercial tea plantation is located on Wadmalaw Island, S.C. It makes tea from bushes descended from plants first brought here in the 1700s. We chat with its tea taster.
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    Sujoy Sengupta, a tea taster and blender of Chamong Tee, the largest Darjeeling tea producer, tastes samples.
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    Darjeeling 2.0: Last Auction Of India's 'Champagne Of Teas' Goes Digital

    Jun 21, 2016
    Darjeeling is one of India's most prized and priciest teas. For over a century, it was sold at live auctions steeped in tradition, with all due pomp. But the last of those auctions ended this month.
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    Bechan Baba in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
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    Tea Tuesday: Meet The Chai Wallahs Of India

    Jun 14, 2016
    Resham Gellatly and Zach Marks spent eight months traveling through India, meeting with hundreds of India's chai wallahs — or tea vendors — who highlight the country's culture and diversity.
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    Dirty Horchata from Boba Guys: Boba Guys and its competitors hope revamped offerings will draw in coffee and tea drinkers.
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    Bubble Tea Is Back — With A Vengeance

    Mar 22, 2016
    Boba is the Taiwanese beverage that allows you to chew your drink. In its latest incarnations (think horchata and cocktail bobas), it's playing ambassador to a whole host of other foods and trends.
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    A tea lady brings round refreshments for British office workers in the 1970s. All over the U.K., the arrival of the tea ladies with trolleys loaded with a steaming tea urn and a tray of cakes or buns was the high point of the workday.
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    When Britain Fought Against The Tyranny Of Tea Breaks

    Feb 23, 2016
    British tea drinking is on the decline. U.K. leaders might have welcomed such news in the 1970s, when the length of the tea break became a major point of political contention.
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    A picture of Meret Oppenheim's September 1935 design notes for the prototype of her brass and ocelot fur bracelet. Pablo Picasso's comment about the bracelet may have inspired Oppenheim to wrap a teacup, saucer and spoon in fur as well.
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    'Luncheon In Fur': The Surrealist Teacup That Stirred The Art World

    Feb 09, 2016
    In 1936, the surrealist Meret Oppenheim wrapped a teacup, saucer and spoon in fur. In the age of Freud, a gastro-sexual interpretation was inescapable. Even today, the work triggers intense reactions.
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    In 1747, members of the notorious Hawkhurst Gang carried out a brazen midnight raid on the King's Custom House in Poole, England: They broke in and stole back their impounded tea. What followed over the next weeks would shock even hardened criminals.
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    Cuppa Thugs: These Brutal Smugglers Ran An 18th Century Tea Cartel

    Feb 02, 2016
    In the 1700s, steep taxes made tea too pricey for most. Smugglers like the notorious Hawkhurst Gang helped feed England's growing taste for tea, operating with a mix of popular support and fear.
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    The 2,100-year-old tea leaves were found in the tomb of the Jing Emperor Liu Qi, who died in 141 B.C. His portrait hangs in the Han Yangling museum in Xianyang, China.
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    World's Oldest Tea Discovered In An Ancient Chinese Emperor's Tomb

    Jan 26, 2016
    Archaeologists found the 2,100-year-old tea leaves in the tomb of a Han dynasty emperor, suggesting tea was highly valued. But was the emperor drinking tea as we do, or using it as medicine?
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    Sisters Ginger Apyar and Jane Hopson have made Christmas tea at the Willard hotel in D.C. a family tradition. "You know, you just want some refinement," Hopson says.
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    From Raucous To Ritzy: A Brief History Of Christmas Tea

    Dec 22, 2015
    In some fancy hotels, Christmas tea has become a refined respite for harried shoppers. But the tradition's roots are much rowdier: efforts to fight public drunkenness.
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    Rebel Brew: What The Boston Tea Party And The Mad Hatter Had In Common

    Dec 15, 2015
    This week marks the 242nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. This year is the 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland. If you'll follow us down the rabbit hole, you'll find some surprising links.
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    A closeup of coffee cherries used to brew cascara.
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    Cascara 'Tea': A Tasty Infusion Made From Coffee Waste

    Dec 01, 2015
    Hot or cold, in a soda, hot toddy or beer — people are finding all sorts of ways to imbibe cascara. It's a caffeinated, tea-like drink with a fruity flavor made from dried coffee cherries.
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    The Salt
    Some believe increased metabolism may be among the benefits of drinking green tea. But there's scant evidence to support that idea.
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    Will Drinking Green Tea Boost Your Metabolism? No So Fast

    Nov 10, 2015
    Dozens of green tea drinks and pills for sale claim to help you burn more fat. But there's scant evidence that green tea, or any other food or drink product, can have a lasting impact on metabolism.
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    For centuries, tea drinking has been synonymous with female tittle-tattle — even though men drank just as much tea. Old dictionaries of English slang provide colorful proof of this association.
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    Gossip Girls: Tea Parties And The Sexist Slang They Inspired

    Oct 27, 2015
    Tea drinking has long been synonymous with female tittle-tattle. Though men drank as much tea and gossiped as avidly as women, it was the latter who got stuck with the bad rap.
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    The Empress of China,<em> </em>photographed in 1876. Nearly a century earlier, this trading ship set sail from New York, inaugurating America's trade with China. It went in search of tea.
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    How A Taste For Chinese Tea Minted America's First Millionaires

    Oct 06, 2015
    China and its trade practices are often blamed for U.S. economic woes. But once upon a time, it was the tea trade with China that created American magnates — with some catastrophic consequences.
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    In Iraq, tea is simmered for about 15 minutes until strong and is then poured into glasses . diluted with hot water and sweetened with lots of sugar.
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    When Tea Is As Sweet As Soda: Sugary Tea Around The World

    Sep 29, 2015
    We think of tea as healthful, but from Morocco to Taiwan to the American South versions of it have become so sugar-laden that a regular tea habit might be just as unhealthful as a soda habit.
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    Thoughts of Mr. Rochester's <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/jan/06/baddies-in-books-bertha-rochester-charlotte-bronte-jane-eyre">mad wife </a>locked up in the attic weren't the only thing that kept Charlotte Brontë up at night.
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    Before Green Tea Was A Superfood, It Was Feared As a Supertoxin

    Sep 15, 2015
    These days, green tea has its health halo pretty firmly affixed. But in Victorian England, adulteration was rampant, and the drink was seen as a "stomach-churning, nerve-jangling threat to health."
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    Archaeologist Chip Wills records samples of vessel shards at the Shabik'eschee Village in Chaco Canyon for residue analysis. In the foreground is a scale measuring a shard used in the analysis.
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    1,000 Years Ago, Caffeinated Drinks Had Native Americans Buzzing

    Sep 08, 2015
    People in the American Southwest and Mexican Northwest were drinking cacao and tea-like yaupon in places where neither grew. That suggests an extensive trade network to deliver a caffeine fix.

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