SC - Byzantine Cooking (Long)

David Friedman ddfr at best.com
Sat Jan 3 09:17:49 PST 1998


>I assume we're talking about Oriental-style tea here? Because if memory
>serves me, humanity has been drinking the fluid from leaves steeped or
>boiled in hot water since we first learned to boil water. ...

>phlip at morganco.net

"Tea" meaning an infusion from the leaves of the tea plant. I am fairly
sure that the use of "tea" to mean "infusion" is a later extension, with
the original meaning being linked to the specific plant.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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