[Sca-cooks] Tea
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Sun Oct 16 17:12:03 PDT 2005
Johnnae mentioned an early mention of tea:
> http://www.gol27.com/HistoryTea.html
> The earliest mention of tea in the literature of Europe was in
> 1559. It
> appears as "Chai Catai'(Tea of China) in the book 'Delle
> Navigatione et
> Viaggi (Voyages and Travels) by Giambattista Ramusio (1485-1557).....
>
> He said 'it is so highly valued and esteemed that
> everyone going on a journey takes it with him, and those people would
> gladly give a sack of rhubarb for one ounce of Chai Catai'.
Huh? *rhubarg*! Why rhubarb? I would have expected this to have been
phrased in terms of gold or silver or salt or sugar? But rhubarb???
Stefan
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