Food Diary :
Weekend Saturday October 22
Long island
Fresh Orange juice : Oranges
Sandwich : Homemade bread, veggies from a local farm.
Tea : 🚩 shipped from Australia???
After eating at a local bakery a simple breakfast I ordered a chamomile. I initially felt that my choices were healthy and semi sustainable but I after I read the label from the tea bag I was surprised. The chamomile tea was from Australia, I was in Long island. The tea did not have anything distinctive not a memorable taste or presentation. I have noticed that a lot of imported goods are seen as more "special" but this was the first time I encounter a tea from Australia. It is interesting to see something that is originally from Asia that was brought to Europe through merchants and then to Australia through colonizers being sold as "special" good when in reality there is not cultural connection to the land.
I'm an avid tea drinker and really appreciate a good tea. I am guilty of occasionally buying "Boldo" at a latin grocery store shipped from Peru or Argentina.
The history of tea spreads across multiple cultures over the span of thousands of years. With the tea plant Camellia sinensis native to East Asia and probably originating in the borderlands of southwestern China and northern Burma. one of the earliest tea drinking is dated back to China's Shang dynasty, in which tea was consumed as a medicinal drink.
An early credible record of tea drinking dates to the 3rd century AD, in a medical text written by Chinese physician Hua Tuo.It first became known to the western world through Portuguese priests and merchants in China during the early 16th century. Drinking tea became popular in Britain during the 17th century. The British introduced commercial tea production to British India, in order to compete with the Chinese monopoly on tea.
Camellia sinensis originated specifically around the intersection of latitude 29°N and longitude 98°E, the point of confluence of the lands of southwest China, Tibet, north Burma, and northeast India. The plant was introduced to more than 52 countries, from this centre of origin
Reading
people should see the kitchen as a laboratory, "a place where
scientists, artists, philosophers and entrepreneurs can think and
re-evolve the way we eat
Kandinsky Saldad - what we taste is often an illusion.
Even music can affect our enjoyment of food. How sweet, salty or sour
something tastes can change depending on the background music, an effect
known as "sonic seasoning"
a phenomenon known as 'perceptual constancy' could be used to provide
astronauts with tastier meals. "If your first bite is saltier than the
second, you don't realise that the second had less salt in it if you
believe they're the same,
