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If you wonder why America runs on bean water instead of leaf soup like the British, blame the revolution. After the Boston Tea Party in 1773, drinking tea was…
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Someone in Han dynasty China looked at a hard, unpleasant bean and decided to mash it, boil it, and curdle it into a jiggly white block. This exhaustive,…
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Before someone figured out that hot water makes everything better, ancient populations simply ripped tea leaves off the bush and chewed them like bitter gum.…
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King Adolf Frederick of Sweden enjoyed a modest dinner of lobster, caviar, and champagne, followed by exactly fourteen massive servings of his favorite…
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In 19th-century Paris, ice cream was served only to the aristocracy. Then an Italian immigrant named Francesco Procopio invented the world’s first gelato…
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Forget retirement homes; rich elders in ancient China just bought breast milk. They believed drinking it directly from wet nurses would restore their fading…
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