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Time for a Cup of Tea: a good thing nicked from China
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A cup of tea may be seen nostalgically by some as quintessentially English. But, of course, it was a medicinal beverage in China for millennia. The transmission of tea plants to the British Empire is a tale of subterfuge and skulduggery, and it was perpetrated by a Scot! Fortune and the tea leaves, indeed! The British established tea plantations in India and Ceylon, and today tea is flourishing in New Zealand. Just my cup of tea!
Topics
• For all the tea in China
• Botanist, adventurer and patriotic thief
• Plantations and social customs
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