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Tea in the Early Modern Western World: Class and Tasting

  • Newberry Library 60 West Walton Street Chicago, IL, 60610 United States (map)

Tea is available nearly everywhere in the present day. However, in the early modern Western world, it was an exotic and luxurious beverage, often at the center of political turmoil, geographical exploration, and medical observation. Learn about this rich history of tea through a lecture and tasting of several teas available in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.