It’s Tea Time: Pirates, Polyphenols, and a Proper Cuppa
Gastropod - En podcast af Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley - Tirsdage
This week, Gastropod tells the story of two countries and their shared obsession with a plant: Camellia sinensis, otherwise known as the tea bush. The Chinese domesticated tea over thousands of years, but they lost their near monopoly on international trade when a Scottish botanist, disguised as a Chinese nobleman, smuggled it out of China in …More →
