In social countries like Morocco or Turkey, they offer you a cup of delicious fresh brewed mint tea.

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They brewed herb tea from roots of some sort.

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Americans regularly brewed Twinning's tea for a while in the 1700's, but then, in 1773, the British government passed the Tea Act, a measure designed to give an advantage to the British East India Company.

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She sat with her back to the mirror as I brewed her a pot of herb tea.

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"Green tea should only be brewed for two minutes or it starts to get bitter, " he says.

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It might not be your cup of tea, but it's well-brewed and worth taking a sip if you're in that end of the market.

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