Everyone Drinks Tea
Courtesy of The New York Public Library
January is national tea month. Here’s an interesting observation about tea consumption in 18th century North America. The French born writer St. John de Crevecoeur said, “Everyone drinks tea . . . the poorer the people the stronger is the tea they drink.”
St. John de Crevecoeur, Sketches of Eighteenth Century America (1925)
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