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Robert Fortune (16 September 1812 – 13 April 1880) [1] was a Scottish botanist, plant hunter and traveller, best known for introducing around 250 new ornamental plants, mainly from China, but also Japan, into the gardens of Britain, Australia, and North America.
In operation since 1883, [1] it is the oldest tea plantation in Europe. [2] The company produces black and green tea . Green and black tea plantations were introduced to the island in the 19th century, from seeds brought by ships returning from the Eastern world and with the help of technical expertise provided by a Chinese man called Lau-a-Pan ...
The first record of tea in English came from a letter written by Richard Wickham, who ran an East India Company office in Japan, writing to a merchant in Macao requesting "the best sort of chaw" in 1615. Peter Mundy, a traveller and merchant who came across tea in Fuji in 1637, wrote, "chaa—only water with a kind of herb boiled in it". [45]
The Tea Horse Road starting in Yunnan province, China, and leading into Burma and Tibet The Siberian Route over which large quantities of tea were transported from China to Europe v
The first documented use of tea in cooking is a recipe for tea cream by La Chapelle, published in Le Cuisinier moderne in 1742; this recipe remained the only use of tea in French cuisine until the 19th century, before the development, as in other countries, of sweet recipes based on tea: financier, cakes, crème brûlée or madeleines.
The Merchant's Wife.Boris Kustodiev, 1918. Tea is an important part of Russian culture.Due in part to Russia's cold northern climate, it is today considered the de facto national beverage, [1] one of the most popular beverages in the country, [2] and is closely associated with traditional Russian culture.
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