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The case for the small cup
Volume and attention pull against each other. What a smaller serving does to the drink, to the habit, and to what you get for the money.
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How coffee is actually drunk, country by country
Italian counters, the Ethiopian jebena, Swedish fika, the phin and condensed milk, and the soluble sachet that most coffee writing pretends away.
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A short history of tea, and the main varieties
The oldest tea ever found dates to about 255 BCE. Green, white, oolong, black and pu-erh come off one species; an enzyme and a microbe do the rest.