A Caffeinated Conversation Starter
Next time you’re taking up the tables at a tea house or sipping a cup at home with friends, here’s something to talk about: the history of tea. Check out the timeline at 2bAsnob.com. Not to worry about the title–with this knowledge, you are more likely to be dubbed a tea geek than anything else. You’ll find some fun characters in tea’s history, including a Chinese emperor who was so in the zone while drinking his tea that legend has it he missed the Mongol invasion. There’s also a lot to be learned about nutrition debates; tea’s benefits were questioned by the Germans and the French, and it was thought to lead to moral decay by some Brits! Lucky for me we’ve moved on since then…
