Tea and Coffee | What the World Drinks
Breakfast tea being passed between cars on the railway
between Peshawar and Lahore, Pakistan
If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of
understanding truth and beauty.
- Japanese Proverb
Tea seller carries kettle in monsoon water, Porbandar, India
Kamdesh, Afghanistan
The earliest record of tea consumption were in China with records dating back to the 10th century B.C.E.
Maimana, Afghanistan
We haven’t had any tea for a week.
The bottom is out of the Universe.
- Rudyard Kipling
Kham, Tibet
Tea Estate, Bangladesh
You can never get a cup of tea large enough
or a book long enough to suit me.
– C.S. Lewis
Tea tasting, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Vietnam
Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
- Turkish Proverb
Istanbul, Turkey
It is believed that the earliest use of coffee was in Ethiopia.
It spread to Yemen by the fifteenth century, and to the rest of the
Middle East, Turkey, Persia, North Africa and then to
Europe and the Americas.
Men enjoy tobacco and thimblefuls of thick, bitter coffee in Baghdad, Iraq
La Fortuna, Honduras
Lombari, Brazil
Coffee harvesting, Colombia
Peru
The powers of a man’s mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.
- Sir James Mackintosh
Brazil
Ah! How sweet coffee tastes!
Lovelier than a thousand kisses,
sweeter far than muscatel wine!
I must have my coffee.
- Johann Sebastian Bach
Kaffee Kantate
Capetown, South Africa
Shekhar Kapur, Film Director and Producer, Mumbai, India
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of
coffee’s frothy goodness.
Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
Montenegro
Steve McCurry in L’Aquila, Italy
Photo by Claudio Marcozzi/Photoland
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