The name of the Japanese tea ritual created by Sen no Rikyu
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What is high tea ?
A "meal" for industrial workers after work, includes substantial food and served at a "high" table or counter
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What process creates different types of tea?
oxidation - enzymes in the tea leaves mix to make new compounds and turn the leaves black
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How do you brew green tea?
cooler than boiling (175 degrees) and steep for 2 minutes (hotter water and longer steep time can produce bitter tea)
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Where were tea bags first invented?
In Milwaukee, WI, in 1901, by Roberta C. Lawson and Mary Molaren
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What percentage of tea consumed in the US is iced tea?
85% - Made popular at the 1904 St Louis World's Fair
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What is special about chai?
Popular in India. A mix of black tea with spices like ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, cardamom & pepper
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What is special about Earl Grey tea?
A black tea flavored with bergomot oil (comes from a type of Seville orange) for Charles Grey, PM - UK (1830-1834) Passed Reform Act to abolish slavery
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What did Robert Bruce, a British army major discover around 1823?
Tea bushes growing in Assam, India (meaning that tea growing expanded from China)
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What is boba tea?
Tea with or without milk with tapioca balls added
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What is the common name of Camellia sinensis?
tea - a bush (sometimes a tree) with green leaves
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What keeps green tea green?
heat the fresh leaves to deactivate the enzyme that causes oxidation and then roll the leaves to give a more vegetal, green taste
