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A fact for the table
The biggest tea drinkers are not the British
Turkey tops per-capita consumption at over 3 kg of tea per person per year — well over a thousand cups.
Four things in every issue, none of them filler:
A fact for the table
the kind you retell
From a past issue
Tea bricks were currency. Compressed tea bricks were money in Tibet, Mongolia and Siberia — scored into squares so you could snap off exact change. In Siberia they still circulated in the 1940s.
A shop worth the trip
what to buy there
From a past issue
McNulty's, New York. Tea and coffee merchants on Christopher Street since 1895, still weighing loose leaf out of bins and chests into 4 oz bags. Go for the smell alone.
A better cup
one habit: water, time, leaf
From a past issue
Stronger? More leaf, not more time. Over-steeping mostly adds bitterness, not body. For a stronger cup, add leaves and keep the time the same.
Ritual & kit of the week
one free, one worth it
From the FindMeTea kits
The Brewing Kit
Four things. Two minutes. Sundays.
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