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It’s Tea Time: Pirates, Polyphenols, and a Proper Cuppa
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Length:
44 minutes
Released:
Aug 1, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
This week, Gastropod tells the story of two countries and their shared obsession with a plant: Camellia sinensis, otherwise known as the tea bush. The Chinese domesticated tea over thousands of years, but they lost their near monopoly on international trade when a Scottish botanist, disguised as a Chinese nobleman, smuggled it out of China in …More →
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Released:
Aug 1, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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