[Sca-cooks] New Books of Possible Interest

[Terry Decker]

The first mention of tea in English is in Lindschooten's Travels, 1597.  The
first imports into England were in the early 1600s.  The first public sale
of tea was at Thomas Garraway's coffee house in 1657.

Bear

>I suspect they probably mean tisanes - what we would call "herbal teas" -
>since, as you are no doubt aware, Camillia sinensis was unknown in Britain
>until... hmmm, I forget the date, but quite late in our period, I think.
>
>Avraham