Landscape photo of green, rolling hills on and around the Happy Valley Tea Estate in Darjeeling, India, on October 12, 2022. Photo by Saurav Sarkar. This Assam and Ceylon combination for English Breakfast is hugely popular across many brands - each using different estates and different grades of leaf - from dust to full on rolled whole leaves. In India, the northern states of Assam and West Bengal are the largest producers of tea in the country. The states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka in the south also grow significant amounts of the crop.

Ok. Has the underlying reason something to do with the fact that the pronunciation in this case is rather akin to the French 'herbe', meaning grass?>> Brief Guide to Tea". BriefGuides. 2006. Archived from the original on 22 August 2006 . Retrieved 7 November 2006. Besky’s assessment of the fair trade economy is even harsher: “Fair trade and all of these bourgeois means [by which] tea is sold fail because they don’t understand what [the] plantation is.”

Heiss, Mary Lou; Heiss, Robert J. (2007). The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide. Ten Speed Press. ISBN 978-1-58008-745-2. Sale Room of East India House by Augustus Charles Pugin & Thomas Rowlandson from the Microcosm of London, 1809 (courtesy of Bishopsgate Institute) Change brewing for reshaped tea market". The Independent. 22 October 2011. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022 . Retrieved 17 February 2021. Tea drinking may have begun in the region of Yunnan during the Shang dynasty, where it was used for medicinal purposes. It is also believed that in Sichuan, "people began to boil tea leaves for consumption into a concentrated liquid without the addition of other leaves or herbs, thereby using tea as a bitter yet stimulating drink, rather than as a medicinal concoction." [5] Euromonitor International (13 May 2013). "Turkey: Second biggest tea market in the world". Market Research World. Archived from the original on 17 January 2013 . Retrieved 25 November 2012.

Yang, Ziyin; Baldermann, Susanne; Watanabe, Naoharu (1 October 2013). "Recent studies of the volatile compounds in tea". Food Research International. Tea – from bushes to mugs: composition, stability and health aspects. 53 (2): 585–599. doi: 10.1016/j.foodres.2013.02.011. ISSN 0963-9969.Ireland, as of 2016, was the second-biggest per capita consumer of tea in the world. [111] Local blends are the most popular in Ireland, including Irish breakfast tea, using Rwandan, Kenyan and Assam teas. The annual national average of tea consumption in Ireland is 2.7kg to 4kg per person. Tea in Ireland is usually taken with milk or sugar and brewed longer for a stronger taste. [112] Are you sure about that with NAE? At least in this general area, one can basically /h/-drop for any grammar word in any position, regardless of stress, and additionally there are some more common non-grammar words such as "home" and "house" which are frequently subject to such.