Travel and first hand experience has certainly been at the center of my passion for tea and I needed to discover as much as I could about this refreshingly simple brew of tiny leaves floating in my tea strainer or teapot. It is imbued with well over 3,000 years of history, technique, botany, geography, trade routes, and of course world cultures. Teatime has found itself to be a unique pause in the daily routine to be served or to be taken for many reasons, such as an expression of hospitality, or as a part of a business transaction, or as a reflective respite.