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In 1191, Zen priest Eisai (栄西) introduced tea seeds to Kyoto. Some of the tea seeds were given to the priest Myoe Shonin, and became the basis for Uji tea. The oldest tea specialty book in Japan, Kissa Yōjōki (喫茶養生記, How to Stay Healthy by Drinking Tea), was written by Eisai. The two-volume book was written in 1211 after his ...
Canned tea is sold prepared and ready to drink. It was introduced in 1981 in Japan. The first bottled tea was introduced by an Indonesian tea company, PT. Sinar Sosro in 1969 with the brand name Teh Botol Sosro (or Sosro bottled tea). [108] In 1983, Swiss-based Bischofszell Food Ltd. was the first company to bottle iced tea on an industrial ...
James Taylor (29 March 1835 - 2 May 1892) was a Scottish tea planter who introduced the industry of tea farming to British Ceylon. [1] He arrived to British Ceylon in 1852 and settled down in Loolecondera estate in Delthota. Here he worked with Scottish merchant Thomas Lipton to develop the tea industry in British Ceylon.
Richard Blechynden (5 May 1857 – 26 July 1940) was a British tea merchant and government official who is credited with popularizing iced tea. Blechynden promoted iced tea at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, after which the drink attained nationwide recognition in the United States.
India's tea industry is the fourth largest in the world, producing $709,000,000 worth of tea. [13] As of 2013 the consumption of green tea in India was growing by over 50% a year. [14] The major tea-producing states in India are: Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Sikkim, Nagaland. [15]
Though coffeehouses had been introduced, tea remained the beverage of choice throughout Britain's American colonies until the Boston Tea Party of 1773. ... Alfred Peet is known as the grandfather ...
Green tea exported from China was first introduced in the coffeehouses of London shortly before the 1660 Stuart Restoration. [16] Thomas Garway, a tobacconist and coffee house owner, was the first person in England to sell tea as a leaf and beverage at his London coffeehouse in Exchange Alley in 1657.
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