Subject: Re: Who came up with the idea...

From: [email-masked] (Jane Beckman)
Date: 7 Jan 93 00:14:42 GMT

What makes folks soak leaves in hot water?  This is the real
question behind tea.  Tea is just one of the most widely
popular variation.  There are many cultures, world-wide, that
have some sort of hot drink made from infused leaves.  Japan,
where tea is ocha ("honorable tea"), has many variants of
plain cha, made with various leaves and/or roasted grains.
Various herbal teas appear in cultures world-wide.  Somewhere,
sometime, someone had to decide that leaves in water tasted
good.  It might have been an early spin-off of soup.
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  Jilara   [[email-masked]]

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