In Tea food historian Helen Saberi explores this rich and fascinating history. Saberi looks at the economic and social … Party; afternoon tea drunk by the British in India; and the 1913 creation of a tea dance or The Dansant that combined tea …. Caravans and Mediterranean Shores -- 5. Tea Comes to the West -- 6. India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia -- 7. Tea Today and Tomorrow …

invention. No tea plantations existed in the world's largest black tea producing countries, India, Kenya and Sri Lanka, when the … the Anglo-Dutch wars and the American war of independence, shaped the economies and military history of Táng and Sòng … knowledge on the hidden origins and detailed history of today's globalised beverage in its many modern guises"-- …