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- Brewing
Everything above this point is context. This is the strand about the cup in front of you: how to make it, how to taste it, and how to keep the leaves worth making. Brewing is where tea stops being a subject and becomes a practice, and the
- Culture
What tea means has always been a larger question than what tea is. The same leaf is a ceremony in Kyoto, a hospitality obligation in Fez, a workplace ritual in Leeds and a philosophical practice in Chaozhou — and none of those readings is a
- History
Tea has been drunk for longer than most countries have existed, and almost everything about how it is grown, traded, taxed and made has changed at least once along the way. This is the strand that follows those changes. It begins in the so