Tea

Tea was discovered about five thousand years ago in China. In the early seventeenth century, tea was introduced to England and its Chinese name, tay, changed to the English name, tea. In England tea was brewed in china teapots. The English believed that a drop of milk in the teapot would prevent it from breaking and thus the tradition of drinking tea with milk started. Around 1868, an Iranian merchant, later nicknamed Chaikar, or “tea planter,” brought tea from India to Iran. Tea became very popular in Iran and nowadays every Persian family has at least one samovar.