Tea: A Coffee Drinker's Guide
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 976 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Hardened coffee drinker Dan Saladino investigates tea's past, present and future and finds out how our preference for the leaf has changed over three centuries. He visits the location of Britain's first tea retailer, hears the adventures of legendary tea hunter John Fortune and visits the site of an auction house which oversaw 85 per cent of all global tea trade. In south west India we hear from a team of tea pluckers and get an insight into the skill and labour involved in producing tea. Do we pay enough for a cup of tea? It's a question Dan will develop in the second instalment of this tea story.
Presented by Dan Saladino and produced in Bristol.
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| 0:45.0 | Okay, some of the more obsessive food programme listeners might recognize this scenario from a previous edition. |
| 0:52.8 | It was called Coffee and the Godshot. |
| 0:55.2 | I'm walking along a street heading towards a coffee shop. |
| 0:58.5 | And the point of the story was to demonstrate |
| 1:00.9 | that I'm so dedicated to coffee that when I walk inside the barista will know exactly what I want. |
| 1:07.6 | Well this time it's different. |
| 1:09.8 | Are you your double espresso? |
| 1:11.6 | No thanks. I'm going to have a tea. |
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