World Tea History

The auction hall in Mombasa opens at seven in the morning. By midday, hundreds of millions of dollars of tea will hav...

High on the ridge at Ali Shan, the tea pickers are out before the tour buses arrive. The air at 1,400 metres has a pa...

Tea begins in China — not as a beverage but as a leaf. The earliest plausible records of tea consumption place it in ...

James Taylor did not arrive in the Kandy hills intending to create one of the best-known tea origins in the world. He...