Darjeeling Tea

Noted writer Pico Iyer talks about the wonderful elixir called Tea and the specialcharm of Darjeeling

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Travel & Events

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• Darjeeling
• Tea
• India
• Incredible
• Cuisine
• Pico
• Iyer

[sayantanbera1]

the darjeeling story is not as exotic as it looks from outside. see a special report: SIMMERING DISCONTENT OVER TEA in the Down To Earth website.

[ipublica]

@walkm023 Thanks for your interjection. Yes, it's interesting what you say and I should have thought of it. But you are clearly the exception that confirms the rule among the Christian community. Take Germans, French, Dutch, Italiens, Americans – all coffee drinkers in the majority. I know this pattern is currently changing and we have to see also that McKenna's assessment dates back to the 1990s.

[walkm023]

@ipublica well i would hardly say that, i mean we British are a largely christian culture (although as many say, the United Kingdom is a very ethnicly diverse nation, no longer made up of just white middle classes in bowler hats and umbrellas) and yet we drink 165,000,000 cups of tea a day. i myself am 15 and tend to drink at least 6 cups a day, sometimes up to 11 or 12; personally i prefer assam tea, followed by either Darjeeling or earl grey. indian tea is the best, far superior to chinese tea

[ipublica]

Thanks so much for this wonderful video. You are so right about tea, especially Darjeeling tea and the values attached to it. Christian culture is a coffee culture, Hindu and Buddhist cultures are tea cultures, says Terence McKenna in his book Food of the Gods (1991).

[MountAnalogue]

the narrator is possibly the gayest man ever

[mileycat92]

darjelling west bengal india rulz

[teaficionado]

I am already best friends with is man, and I've never meet him. I LOVE TEA!!!

[jimmybryght]

Lovely video with Mozart's music. Nice job!

[alal22000]

I love drinking Darjeeling tea. It is definitely one of the best tea varieties I've every drunk in my life!

[Guraskophul]

Wow....dats great...