As a child tea was tea, nobody claimed any medical properties for the stuff. Although my Wife who is from East Asia tells me they only drink black tea when they are sick. Today in the West we are told that tea has some amazing medical properties. It is said to be good for the heart, cancer, weight loss, arthritis, as an antibiotic and to lower cholesterol. Is this the same stuff I drank with lots of milk and four sugars as a boy?.
Tea has an interesting history in the West, and probably an equally fascinating one in the East which we shall look at in a later article. In England tea appeared around the mid 1600s. It was the marriage of King Charles II to a Portuguese princess that started the tea drinking fashion. She was tea addict and it became a popular drink in the royal court and gradually spread to the rest of the population. It replaced gin and ale as the most popular drink for the masses, which must have had great health benefits in itself.
There is always the big tea debate as to whether you put the milk in last or first. I guess that […]

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