Word: tea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Over tea in Sparks House, he proudly shows off a recent copy of the Delta Shuttle magazine--in which he was featured...
...swank W Hotel, but she's not there for its minimalist-chic decor, or the hipper-than-thou people who pack the bar. Instead she can usually be found in the hotel restaurant Heartbeat, eagerly waiting for the end of her meal. That's when James Labe, the tea sommelier, will bring out a platter of 10 loose-leaf teas. Some neophytes might balk at offerings like Bao Jong, a honey-tasting Taiwanese tea, which goes for $10 a pot. Madden, 45, who only started drinking such teas in earnest two years ago, not only ordered a pot; she also...
...growing number of people know the difference. Since 1990, tea sales have more than doubled, to $4 billion a year in the U.S., owing in part to the burgeoning interest in finer teas. Classy restaurants are shedding cheap tea bags for menus of luxe loose-leaf varieties. Tea houses across the country, like San Francisco's Tea & Co., Boston's Tealuxe and Washington's Teaism, are packing in sippers. Even the high church of coffee, Starbucks, is prominently displaying this year's big acquisition: Tazo Teas. Ellen Lii, the owner of Ten Ren Tea in New York City's Chinatown...
...Indeed, tea has become so popular that it's growing beyond the pot and showing up in everything from cosmetics to candles. Avon has a supersize tea bag for the tub; Kiehl's uses it in makeup, Clairol in hair mousse. The hipster set is buying Red Flower candle and tea sets. In August, Elizabeth Arden launched its Green Tea fragrance and body line. Upscale apothecaries stock Tea Thymes home and bath products, while mass-market drugstores are moving Coty's hit, Healing Garden's green-tea line...
...what's brewing here? Tea once was regarded as a bitter-tasting second choice to coffee by most Americans. But in the mid 1990s, interest perked up when studies suggested that the drink, particularly green tea, can ward off some cancers, packs a wallop of vitamin C and even boasts fluoride for the teeth. A Harvard study this year found that a cup of black tea a day cuts the risk of heart attacks by 44%. What's more, caffeine freaks, jangly from coffee's finger-in-the-socket jolt and drop, are coming to appreciate the smoother caffeine boost...