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colonial-tea-trade-origin · gorelik-2017-rooibos-ethnographic-perspective
- Claim ID
- colonial-tea-trade-origin
- Assertion
- Gorelik concludes that preparing rooibos as a tea appears to be a product of the global expansion of the tea trade, that colonial settlers valued it as a local substitute for expensive Asian tea, and that there is no evidence showing which community first made it; he suggests it may have arisen among Bastaards combining indigenous knowledge of the plant with colonial tea-drinking.
- Quote
it appears that the practice making such infusion or decoction, or at least, its consumption as a 'tea', is a phenomenon of the global expansion of the tea trade.
- Quote language
- en
- Locator
- section: 3.2.5 Conclusion
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