The reasons for the spread of tea-drinking

In a Japanese-style tea house, reflections on why tea drinking spread around the world

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• tea
• drinking
• Japan
• England

[ddb1965]

The speaker made an inacurate statement when he said that Americans rejected tea after the British tried to force it on them. The fact is that the colonists in North America drank as much, or more, tea per capita as the people in England, prior to the outbreak of the American Revolution. What caused the Boston Tea Party was the fact that the British Crown had given a monopoly on the importing of tea to the Colonies to the British East India Company.

[ayabaya]

Thanks. yes, it was not forcing the drinking. Nor, simply was it the monopoly as I recall, but also putting a tax on tea ('no taxation without representation'). As usual there is a danger of over-simplification.

[CIRIL03]

How I´ve been told tea entered the english tradition through D. Catarina de Bragança mariage, her dowry included oversea lands and a big amount of tea wich was virtually unknown in britain until then.

[bobhoward111]

This guy is a true idiot. Listen carefully, he makes one historical mistake after the other. Then there are others who rate him 5 stars, I wonder??

[threeheadedbaby]

it's a good thing it was substituted for beer or i would be an alcoholic. i drink at least 10 cups a day. love it.