Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups Hellyer Robert
Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups Hellyer Robert Today, Americans are some of the world's biggest consumers of black teas; in Japan, green tea, especially sencha, is…
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Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups Hellyer Robert
Today, Americans are some of the world's biggest consumers of black teas; in Japan, green tea, especially sencha, is preferred. Tracing the trans-Pacific tea trade from the eighteenth century onward, Green with Milk and Sugar shows how interconnections between Japan and the United States have influenced the daily habits of people in both countries.Hellyer explores the forgotten American penchant for Japanese green tea and how it shaped Japanese tastes. These national partialities, Robert Hellyer reveals, are deeply entwined.
The influx of Japanese imports democratized green tea: Americans of all classes, particularly Midwesterners, made it their daily beverage--which they drank hot, often with milk and sugar. In the nineteenth century, Americans favored green teas, which were imported from China until Japan developed an export industry centered on the United States.