In honor of International Tea Day, Global Voices is exploring the history and variety of tea consumption around the world. From the bitter chai of Turkey to the earthy yerba mate of Argentina, and the ...

They were fed up with a British tax on tea in particular and consumed by resentment of British authority in general. So on the night of December 16, 1773, a group of rebellious colonial Americans ...

Prologue: Tea : leaf of awareness -- A botanical excursion : the rivals of tea -- The heartstrings of national pride : Southeast Asia and the origins of tea -- A slave of yoghurt : tea in the 1st to ...

While tea drinkers in the West might just drop a tea bag into boiled water and think nothing more of it, Chinese tea aficionados have elaborate preferences for how to pour water of what temperature ...

Green tea was just as popular as black tea in colonial America, with five Chinese tea varieties fueling the Boston Tea Party protest of 1773.

A room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art tells the story of tea and politics, from China to Britain and that “party” in Boston. By James Barron This article is part of our latest Museums special ...