WNYC Interview on Global Tea History and Tea How-To’s

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Written By Charlene Tranquil Tuesdays

I had the pleasure of chatting about global tea history and some basic ways to improve your cup of tea on Alison Stewart’s show “All of It” on WNYC.

We covered a lot:

  • the basic outlines of tea history

  • caffeine levels in tea

  • why British style afternoon tea is basically a delivery system for pastries and sugar

  • the Opium War

  • colonial commodity markets

  • five easy things to improve your tea drinking experience in order of easiest to nerdiest

  • and more!

You can listen to the segment here.

One thing that really delighted me when I was in the recording studio with Alison Stewart, was that there was a cough button to push if you needed to cough while you were on air.

Charlene Tranquil Tuesdays
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