Rep. Allen West is one of the best known first-term Tea Party House members.

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American tea-meisters now travel the world seeking the best-nurtured, hand-harvested, pesticide-free leaves of the tea plant.

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Endless snowflakes fell from an opalescent Austrian sky and stayed on our noses and eyelashes while we warmed up with cups of clove-and-orange Christmas tea from Demmers Teehaus , Vienna's best.

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Firefly, probably the first and best-known company to package and sell the product, began distilling a sweet tea and vodka drink in 2008.

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Hoffman's portrayal of Flynn, the modern-thinking humanist whose progressive sermons and personal habits -- like an enjoyment of three sugars in his tea --rankle austere Aloysius, has won him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

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