Green with Milk and Sugar : : When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups /

Green with Milk and Sugar : : When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups / / Robert Hellyer.

Today, Americans are some of the world’s biggest consumers of black teas; in Japan, green tea, especially sencha, is preferred. These national partialities, Robert Hellyer reveals, are deeply entwined. Tracing the trans-Pacific tea trade from the eighteenth century onward, Green with Milk and Sugar...

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Hellyer, Robert,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 35 b&w figures
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • NOTES ON CONVENTIONS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. THE FOUNDATIONS OF TEAWAYS IN JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES
  • 2. TEA AMID CIVIL WARS
  • 3. MAKING JAPAN TEA
  • 4 THE MIDWEST: GREEN TEA COUNTRY
  • 5. THE BLACK TEA WAVE HITS AMERICA
  • 6. DAILY CUPS DEFINED: BLACK TEA IN THE UNITED STATES, SENCHA IN JAPAN
  • CONCLUSION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTES
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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