Brewing a New American Tea Industry
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Susan M. Walcott, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: The article discusses the tea industry and market in the U.S. It comments on a transformation in agriculture that emphasizes health and environmental sustainability. The author describes early attempts to grow tea in the Southeastern U.S. during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She also reflects on modern tea-growing locations, including Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Salem, Oregon, and Hawai'i, and modern tea companies, including Lipton Tea and Bigelow Tea Company. Demographic characteristics of U.S. tea consumers are also considered.
Brewing a New American Tea Industry
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Geographical Review, 102, 3, 350-363
- Language: English
- Date: 2012
- Keywords
- tea trade, United States agriculture, tea, Hawaiian Agriculture, Hawaii, environmental sustainability, geography