Tag: tea espionage
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The Wild Heart of Assam: A Secret Hidden in Plain Sight
In 1823, a Scottish adventurer named Robert Bruce was trading in Assam when a local nobleman directed him to a Singpho tribal chief, and to a wild tea plant the tribe had been brewing, smoking, and eating for generations. The British authorities dismissed it as too coarse for civilized tastes. It took an industrial spy,…