[Sca-cooks] Tea Information

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Madhavi wrote:
> Strange as it may seem, not India either. The British introduced tea to
> India and it was only well into the 19th century that they actually
> convinced any of the natives to drink it!

Tea appears to be the endemic beverage of much of the modern Near and Middle East, too. Yet they were not drinking tea in Persia during SCA period. And while mint tea - gunpowder green tea and fresh mint - is THE beverage of modern Morocco, the actual tea was not introduced until the late 18th century by the English as a gift to a local ruler.

Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)