The best flavors often come from things that were never meant to go together. Drink tea, be a contrarian and wage war on mediocrity.
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A story for Russian peasant readers about the 1877 Russo-Turkish War: thirsty soldiers cheer when the samovar arrives.
Pictured: Russian soldiers in a Bulgarian cottage during the war.
Last call.
Russia, 1913: coffee and vodka on the menu. A year later, the state shut the liquor stores for mobilization.
Tea made the list of wartime necessities. Coffee didn't.
Not his cup.
In Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter (1836), a Cossack tastes tea, grimaces and asks for vodka.
Tea, he says, is not a Cossack drink.
Old machines, long memories.
The French built a tea factory at Cầu Đất, near Đà Lạt, in 1927. Its machinery now anchors Vietnam's first tea museum.
Pictured: a tea factory in French Indochina, 1910s.
The tea master.
Chinese foreman Lau Dzhen Dzhau at the Chakva tea factory, Russian Empire, c. 1905–1915.
Color photograph by Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky.
Tea. Vietnam. Smoke. humbletealeaf.com/vietnam-wa…
Hidden fire.
The Hoàng Cầm stove, invented by a Viet Minh army cook in 1951–52, sent smoke through underground channels so aircraft couldn't spot it.
It boiled water for hot drinks and for sterilizing surgical instruments.
Photo: Liftold, CC BY-SA 3.0
