Life in the Overberg

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”  ― C.S. Lewis

The coming weeks we introduce you to about 25 different natural health teas (without added flavours and other additives). Here an introduction. All teas at Yum Eat Cafe are served in-fusion.

Beverage produced by steeping top leaves and buds of the tea plant in freshly boiled water.  It originated in China about 2700 BC, possibly because of the need to boil drinking water for health reasons.  Cultivating of the tea plant in Japan began about AD 800.  The use of tea later spread to other Asiatic countries and by the first half of the 18^th century, tea was a popular beverage in Holland, England and the American Colonies.

The major types of tea classified according to processing method include black tea, producing an amber coloured…