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Memories of Two Grandmas

T here’s plenty of science to back the claims that tea’s natural antioxidants promote health and well-being. But I don’t need to be persuaded. My own preference for tea is genetically encoded thanks to both of my grandmothers.

My dad’s mother, Ruby Scott, grew up in Scotland’s Orkney Islands and then sailed to this country on an ocean liner with my grandfather in the early 1920s. A lifelong tea

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