India is the world's largest tea producer, with Assam accounting for about 55% of its 856m kilogram production last year.
American tea-meisters now travel the world seeking the best-nurtured, hand-harvested, pesticide-free leaves of the tea plant.
Note the reference to tea: it has an entirely different place in the English mythorama, our view of how the world should be, to the place that tea, with its parties and Boston Harbour, has in the American.
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England is world-famous for its afternoon tea, in which the beverage is served with finger sandwiches, scones and petit fours.
For Ms Ferguson, Marcel Proust best embodies the idea of French cuisine as art because he could conjure a whole world out of a cup of tea.
Last weekend, businessmen and ambassadors from around the world sat on couches and sipped tea in the court of United Arab Emirates' Education Minister, Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak al Nahyan.
With enduring links to Argentina, Brazil (where 5% of the people claim Middle Eastern roots), Chile and Venezuela, Syria can boast that it is the world's biggest importer of mate tea.
Find yourself in the desert drinking hot and sweet tea with Bedouins and travelers from around the world.
He says he has already been "inundated" with requests from NGOs for tea bags to distribute in various areas around the world.
And here is tea in that English mythorama, showing that the world is in order and that there will always be an England.
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Roji is the Japanese term for a path leading to a tea garden, a symbolic moving away from the outside world into a contemplative place.
Our main exports, tea, rubber, cocoa and garments, all became uncompetitive in the world market.
We also heard from the Renfrewshire company selling tea to China, we heard about the role of Edinburgh University's world-leading informatics department.
Elsewhere, 32 towns and cities will host 200 hours of festivities including an aerial tightrope walk in Coventry, a world record sing-a-long attempt in Manchester and the UK's biggest tea dance in Plymouth.
The idea of actually having a tea party, at least at home, has long been relegated to the world of little girls, as a social occasion with dolls, stuffed toys and perhaps a semicooperative pet or two.
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