Van Lin-Schooten calls the beverage chaa. Tea is also valued for its alleged medicinal values. Tea Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. Tea Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual. Tea was discovered in China more than 5,000 years ago.
Tea is the most popular drink beverage in the world - next to water.
The tea that graces tables in virtually every country around the globe comes from the same plant, Camellia sinensis, a member of the evergreen family. From the leaves of this one plant spring three basic types of tea black, green and oolong and more than 3,000 varieties.