Tea and Persia

Tea and Persia

Tea was regularly drunk throughout Central Asia as early as the beginning of the eighteenth century. Duke of Holstein to Persia, refers to tea drinking in some detail.

He says “that instead of drinking wine in taverns, they drink this drink which they call tzai, or tea. The people with a good reputation drink this drink. They buy their tea from Chattai, and explains what the herb looks like”. (The history of the Indian tea industry, 10)

He comments about the Indians, from India, “that they only put the tea into seething water, from Brass or earthen pots very homely made, which are put to no other use. They drink it really hot to the touch that they can’t hold their dishes, which are either Porcelain or Silver.” (The history of the Indian tea industry, 10)