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Christopher Hitchens may have throat cancer, but he still appreciates tea when it is properly made. He has learned, as I already well knew, that you cannot get a decent pot or cup of tea here in the US. And so he wrote an article for Slate about how to do it. All you Americans that think tea sucks, it is because here, it does. But made properly tea is amazing.
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Date: 2011-01-08 04:07 am (UTC)Steeping black tea can be overdone, if you leave it for long you get a metallic taste and eventually an iridescent sheen on top. There's so little tea in US tea bags that you have to leave it for ages to get any flavor. I buy UK tea bags from Amazon.com and they make strong tea in little time. The black tea available in the US is generally very very poor.
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