Robert Fortune Why can’t we grow tea in America? We can, and we now do. The history of tea planting in the United States can be traced to the years just prior to The Civil War. On July 21, 1857, Charles Mason, United State Commissioner of Patents, wrote to his seed suppliers in London to…
The Oldest Tea in Britain
300-year-old green tea from China.British researchers have found what they believe to be the oldest tea in Britain, and to the surprise of contemporary British tea drinkers, the tea is green!The unassuming box of Chinese tea was acquired around 1700 by a ship’s surgeon James Cuninghame. Cunninghame subsequently gave it as a gift to the…