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Some growers feel that tea production is not economically viable without some mechanization, [1] but there is evidence that unmechanized tea production is viable, albeit with lower net profit margins. [2] The Charleston Tea Garden, on Wadmalaw Island, outside of Charleston, South Carolina, is the only large-scale tea farm in the US, at 127 ...
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Yellow tea was an accidental discovery in the production of green tea during the Ming dynasty, when apparently sloppy practices allowed the leaves to turn yellow, which yielded a different flavour as a result. [26] Tea production in China, historically, was a laborious process, conducted in distant and often poorly accessible regions.
The history of tea processing corresponds intimately with the role that tea played in Chinese society and the preferred methods of its consumption in ancient Chinese society. The domestication of tea and the development of its processing method likely began in the area around what is now Southwest China, Indo-Burma, and Tibet. [ 2 ]
aUniversity of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio Department of Family and Community Medicine, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78229-3900, USA bDepartment of Sociology, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas, USA cUniversity of Pennsylvania Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research, USA Accepted1November2004
The etymology of the various words for tea reflects the history of transmission of tea drinking culture and trade from China to countries around the world. [14] Nearly all of the words for tea worldwide fall into three broad groups: te, cha and chai, present in English as tea, cha or char, and chai.
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Teavana Corporation was an American tea company, which previously had locations throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Middle East. [1] Starbucks acquired Teavana in 2012, and in 2017, Starbucks announced it would close all Teavana locations by 2018.