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By Pellegrino Artusi

Published 1998

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Tea is cultivated almost exclusively in China and Japan, and is one of the chief exports of those countries. Teas from Java, the Indies and Brazil are considered of much inferior quality.

Its small leaves, rolled up and dried to be sold, are produced by an evergreen shrub with many branches, which does not grow higher than two meters. The leaves are harvested three times a year: first in April, then at the beginning of the summer and finally towards the middle of autumn.

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