Today, Turkey is famous for its tea. It has the highest tea consumption per person, followed by the UK. The most popular type in Turkey is the distinctive Rize tea, a black tea from Turkey’s Rize Province on the eastern Black Sea coast.
Surprisingly, tea is not an ancient Turkish tradition. The drink overtook coffee in popularity only after World War I and the breakup of the Ottoman Empire. With the loss of the Ottoman southern provinces, coffee was suddenly an expensive import. Tea, as a homegrown product from Anatolia, was cheap and caffeinated. Economics was the spark that started the Turkish love affair with tea.
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