In 1560 the first European to encounter tea and write about it was Jasper de Cruz, a missionary on Portugals first commercial trade journey to China. Portugal, the most advanced navy at the time, was the first European country to gain the right of trade with China.
TEA IN 1560…
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Interesting. Didn’t Marco Polo say anything at all about tea?
‘I have not told half of what I saw’ is the only one I can remember – can’t remember any about tea?
And from then, it took another 46 years until the first tea chests in Europe arrived in Amsterdam, in 1606.
Thanks for that info Tom, you should go on egg heads you would win hands down :)):)
Thus began the escalation of ‘Tea Drnking’….Now touted as the ‘National Drink’ :>>
That’s so true 🙂 x