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• Coffee is nudging tea aside in the UK’s affections. What can this civilisational shift mean? – The Guardian (22 August 2023)
  
  
• Spilling the Tea: Insect DNA Shows Up in World’s Top Beverage -- TheScientist (14 June 2022)
  
  
• Indian tea start-ups search for an exotic edge -- BBCNews (18 February 2022)
  
  
• Coffee or Chai? At 2 Kolkata Cafes, ‘Adda’ Is What’s Really on the Menu -- The New York Times (26 November 2021)
  
  
• Tea break? British shoppers turn their noses up at the traditional cuppa -- The Guardian (19 November 2021)
  
  
• Tired of tea scum? How to banish it for ever – and make the perfect cuppa -- The Guardian (08 September 2021)
  
  
• Another Unlikely Pandemic Shortage: Boba Tea -- The New York Times (16 April 2021)
  
  
• Yaupon: The rebirth of America's forgotten tea -- BBCTravel (24 February 2021)
  
  
• Pollan, Michael. 2021. This Is Your Mind on Plants. NY: Penguin.
  
  
• What can different cultures teach about boredom? -- BBCtravel (10 December 2020)
  
  
• From tea fields to university in Sri Lanka -- BBCNews (29 September 2020)
  
  
• What maths is involved in stirring a cup of tea? -- BBCNews (17 September 2020)
  
  
• US woman sparks transatlantic tea war with brutal online brew -- The Guardian (24 June 2020)
  
  
• Yorkshire Tea and PG Tips respond to anti-BLM boycott with #solidaritea tea -- The Guardian (09 June 2020)
  
  
• Trouble brewing for tea producers as coronavirus lockdown hits harvests -- The Guardian (07 May 2020)
  
  
• Soap and solace scarce as Sri Lanka's tea pickers toil on amid lockdown -- The Guardian (24 April 2020)
  
  
• Besky, Besky. Tasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea. 2020. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.
  
  
• Scrap 'quick-fix diets and tea-toxes' this New Year -- BBCNews (31 December 2019)
  
  
• The Topanga Tea Ceremony -- The New York Times (06 December 2019)
  
  
• Teabags: Is there plastic in yours? -- BBCNews (06 November 2019)
  
  
• Microplastics: Premium teabags leak billions of particles - study -- BBCNews (27 September 2019)
  
  
• Mid-Brexit, Britons Pause to Debate What Really Matters: Tea -- The New York Times (08 July 2019)
  
  
• 'I want to ban detox teas being sold on Instagram' -- BBCNews (26 June 2019)
  
  
• Don’t Call It Darjeeling, It’s Nepali Tea -- The New York Times (28 May 2019)
  
  
• 'We made more than five billion teabags last year' -- BBCNews (15 April 2019)
  
  
• The tea tycoon who was 'the world's best loser' [Tommy Lipton] -- BBCNews (23 September 2018)
  
  
• They’ve Made Lots of Bubble Tea. Now They’ll Make the Pearls Too -- The New York Times (14 September 2018)
  
  
• Coffee war brews in the land of tea -- BBCNews (30 August 2018)
  
  
• Lanhydrock National Trust cream tea advert sparks outrage -- BBCNews (11 March 2018)
  
  
• Sipping acidic fruit teas can wear away teeth, says study -- BBCNews (23 February 2018)
  
  
• The human-elephant conflict in India's tea state Assam -- BBCNews (23 January 2018)
  
  
• The perks and downsides of tea and coffee -- BBCfuture (03 October 2017)
  
  
• The true story behind England’s tea obsession -- BBCtravel (27 August 2017)
  
  
• Why you could soon be missing your cup of Darjeeling tea -- BBCNews (05 August 2017)
  
  
• Britain's Great Tea Heist -- The Atlantic (02 August 2017)
  
  
• How a strike has paralysed life in India's Darjeeling -- BBCNews (06 July 2017)
  
  
• Tea Bag Index
  "The Tea Bag Index is a unique citizen science project that measures global tea bag decomposition. Participants have one simple task: take two plastic tea bags (one Lipton Green tea bag and one Lipton Rooibos tea bag) and bury them just 8 centimeters below the ground in a the same location (15 centimeters apart from one another). After 2-3 months, remove the tea bags, dry them out, weigh them, and submit the data to the Tea Bag Index team. What can the weight of these tea bags tell us? These weights indicate the rate of plant decay in a specific location. Plant decay rates are influenced by the amount of carbon in a particular location, offering information about the impact of greenhouse gasses in the local environment. Those interested in participating in this project should check out the detailed instructions on this website. Those simply curious about the project can check out the locations of current contributors on the Map, found within the Data tab, or read media coverage of the project via Publications." -- MMB. The Scout Report, Volume 23, Number 20, 19 May 2017.
  
  
• Secrets of tea plant revealed by science -- BBCNews (02 May 2017)
  
  
• How a man from the Midwest became Wu De the tea master -- South China Morning Post (15 January 2017)
  
  
• Bubble Tea? So 2002. A Sampling of Food-Trend Predictions -- The New York Times (27 December 2016)
  
  
• Why do the British love the taste of tea so much? -- BBCFuture (03 June 2016)
  
  
• Ayahuasca: Psychedelic Tea from the Amazon -- LiveScience (19 May 2016)
  
  
• The drink that costs more than gold -- BBCtravel (26 April 2016)
  
  
• Caffeine: The World’s Most Popular Drug -- Gastropod (22 March 2016)
  
  
• 10 ways the UK's eating habits have changed -- BBC News (18 February 2016)
  
  
• World's Oldest Tea Discovered in an Ancient Chinese Emperor's Tomb -- NPR (26 January 2016)
  
  
• Tea or Coffee: Which drink is better for you? -- BBCfuture (15 January 2016)
  
  
• Archaeologists Find World’s Oldest Tea in the Tomb of a Han Dynasty Emperor -- Smithsonian (13 January 2016)
  
  
• How caffeine at night resets your inner clock -- MPRNews (16 September 2015)
  
  
• The bitter story behind the UK's national drink -- BBCNews (07 September 2015)
  
  
• 1,000 Years Ago, Caffeinated Drinks Had Native Americans Buzzing -- NPR (08 September 2015)
  
  
• Britain's Oldest Cuppa Found -- Discovery News (02 June 2015)
  
  
• The philosopher who studies the experience of coffee: What coffee says about your mind -- BBCNews (18 May 2015)
  
  
• Marooned in an overgrown tea garden -- BBCNews (13 April 2015)
  
  
• Ancient Chinese Tea Bowls Hold Rare Iron Compound -- LiveScience (16 May 2014)
  
  
• In pictures: Why is Darjeeling tea the fine wine of teas -- BBCNews (07 October 2013)
  
  
• What you should know about caffeine -- MPR (19 December 2012)
  
  
• Analysis of 'Black Drink' Residue in Prehistoric Native American Ceramic Vessels -- ScienceDaily (06 September 2012)
  
  
• Ancient Energy Boost, Brewed From Toasted Leaves and Bark -- New York Times (08 August 2012)
  
  
• Caffeinated 'Vomit Drink' Nauseated First City -- Discovery News (07 August 2012)

• 101 Frightening Ice Cream Flavors From Around The World-- John, Web log (12 July 2007)
  
  
• A History of Tea Timeline -- 2Basnob
  
  
• Assam tea estate goes organic -- BBC News (01 May 2010)
  
  
• Chris Roberson's tea page
  
  
• Entitea
  
  
• Fisher, Aaron. 2010. The Way of Tea: Reflections on a LIfe with Tea. North Clarendon, VT: Tuttle Publishing.
  
  
• Fraser, Evan D.G., and Andrew Rimas. Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. NY: Free Press, 2010.
  
  
• Heiss, Robert J. and Mary Lou Heiss. The Story of Tea:  A Cultural History and Drinking Guide. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2007.
  
  
• Heiss, Robert J. and Mary Lou Heiss. The Tea Enthusiast’s Handbook:  A Guide to the World’s Best Teas. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2010.
  
  
• Hobhouse, Henry. Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind Reprint Edition. Counterpoint, 2005.
  
  
• Kim, Kwang Ok (Ed.). Re-orienting Cuisine: East Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First Century. Food, Nutrition, and Culture Series. NY: Berghahn, 2015.
  
  
• The Language of Food: Ice Cream -- Dan Jurafsky, Web log (11 July 2011)
  
  
• Lu, Yu. The Classic of Tea. Trans. Francis Ross Carpenter. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974.
  
  
• Macfarlane, Alan, and Iris Macfarlane. Green Gold: The Empire of Tea. London: Ebury, 2003.
  
  
• Rose, Sarah. For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History. NY: Viking, 2010.
  
  
• Standing, Tom. A History of the World in 6 Glasses. NY: Walker, 2005.
  
  
• Tea -- Wikiquote
  
  
• "Tea Chemistry," The Periodic Table of Videos -- University of Nottingham
  
  
• Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne. A History of Food. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons/Blackwell 2009.
  
  
• Weisburger, John H., and James Comer. "Tea." In The Cambridge World History of Food, ed. by K. F. Kiple and K. C. Ornelas. Cambridge, UK; NY: Cambridge University Press, 2000.III.11.
  
  
• The World in a Glass: Six Drinks That Changed History -- nationalgeographic.com (3 October 2005)
  
  
• Zak, Victoria. 20,000 Secrets of Tea: The Most Effective Ways to Benefit from Nature's Healing Herbs. Dell, 1999.

A Ming Dynasty painting
Wen Zhengming
Scholars greeting in a tea ceremony

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