History
Tea did not arrive — it grew up with us.
From a medicinal leaf in the southwest mountains to the pressed cakes of the trade roads. A few long reads on where the cup comes from.
History · the long view
The story of tea
How a bitter leaf from the southwest mountains became a medicine, a ritual, a currency and, eventually, the most-drunk prepared drink on earth.
History · the homeland
Tea in China
The country that gave the world the leaf also gave it the method — the seven classes, the gongfu table, and a thousand years of arguing about water.