Te The Drink That Changed The World - 1719 Words

According to Laura C. Martin, in the book, â€Å"Tea: the Drink that changed the World,† tea is an aromatic beverage widely consumed around the world. The beverage is prepared by pouring boiling water over Camellia Sinensis leaves, the major tealeaves. The leaves grow in different areas in Asia, but most notably in Chian and India (Martin, 2007). There are a variety of tea flavors. For example, Darjeeeling and Chinese green tea have a bitter flavor, while other teas have sweet, grassy or floral flavor (Teavana, 2015). The Historian John Griffiths explains that upon the European colonization of North America, the colonizers introduced tea to the colonies (Griffiths, 2007). He continues that tea appealed to all classes and has easily adapted to†¦show more content†¦All of a sudden, a light breeze caused little leaves to fall into the water. The emperor tasted the water and found it delicious (Higgins Burke, 2014). Tea became an essential beverage in China. While the s tory of tea indicates that tea was introduced from Ancient China, tea has been a crucial trade product that travelled through centuries to reach almost every corner in the world. Higgins and Burke argue that from China to North American, tea developed to new variations, flavors, uses, production methods, and equipment. Also, tea rituals have developed and taken a significant place in local cultures (Higgins Burke, 2014). Tea in the United States: According to the article, â€Å"About American Tea culture,† every time tea is introduced to a new country, it implicates and mutates to a new â€Å"tea culture† that deeply influences the society (bonteavant, 2012). Tea is probably the only beverage that spurs dramatic change in the societies to which it is introduced providing propulsion for poetry, meditation, civil disobedience, economic shifts, social and spiritual rituals. Also, tea has greatly been valued as a medicine or even used as currency or as food (Bonteavant, 2012). The article mentions how tea has enhanced American economy as well as the social and physical health of the society