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A Russian Tea Ceremony
In some areas they use three teapots that sit one on top of another
to keep the tea warm. Often they are decorated with pictures from
Russian folk stories and sometimes, they are made in the shape of
a part of a bigger picture, so that when they fit together they look
like a person or an animal.
Three teapots are used when you want to make two different kinds of
tea at the same time.
The middle pot usually holds strong black tea, the smallest pot on
the top holds herbal or mint tea, and the large pot on the bottom
holds hot water. The teas can be mixed with each other and diluted
with hot water as you pour out each cup. Everyone can mix the type
of tea they like.
Tea is drunk from cups but more often Russians use a ‘Podstakanniki’
- a special glass in a silver holder.
Tea is in
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Tea is the second most popular beverage
in the world next to water, tea has quite a following with more
than 37 billion glasses of iced tea being consumed each year. |
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Blending tea gives it a special tone and flavor,
in fact there may be as many as 60 different types of tea in
any one tea bag. |
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To taste tea, experts slurp it to the back of
their throats, much as a wine taster would do. This is to ‘atomize”
it allowing them to taste and smell simultaneously. |
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Tea experts can determine the manufacturing method,
the quality and value in tea and even the estate it was grown
in with just one sip of tea. |
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