As it was born the Chai Tea

Probably you will have taken in some fashionable coffee a creamy drink, sweet and spiced with a name resembled “Chai latte”. The first surprise is that it does not treat of coffee, but of a mix of tea and spices, with milk and sugar. If it has liked you, we invite you to know a bit more about this form to take tea.

The word“chai”(Hindi: ??? ) It is the one who uses commonly in the Indian to appoint the tea. “Masala”It is a term employed in the Indian cookery that refers to a mix of different spices. The union of two traditions was behind the origin of the Chai Tea, as we know it.

The history of this drink #trace to the origins of the traditional medicine hindú, the Ayurveda or science of the life, that attributes to the spices beneficial properties for the health.

But curiously his expansion arrive to the Indian with the crops of tea inAssamAndDarjeeling, implanted by the English, that in 1830 depended to resupply of the monopoly that Chinese taenia on the tea. The response: till tea in the Indian, that was his colony. In 1900 around 90% of the tea consumed in England tilled in the Indian. To the Indians did not like them take the tea, fact that surprised to the English, since it was unthinkable for them that any person will not appreciate the tea.

For incentivar the consumption of tea the Association of theTea of the Indian, of British property, promoted it with the organisation in the Indian factories of rests so that his employees took tea, imitating the habit londinense.

Originally the tea served to the English style, with a cloud milk and sugar, but early the vendors callejeros, known eat“Chai Wallahs”,They began to season his drinks with spices, milk and sugar following the tradition ayurvédica. This fact in spite of the opposition of the English, that saw like menguaba with this habit the volume used of leaves of tea by cup, was not sufficient to avert the birth of the “Chai Tea”.

TheChai TeaI popularise in occident in the decade of the 60, of the past century, when the Yogi Bhajan spend to North America, the Yoga, the spirituality hindú and the one who called Yogi Tea, and from then his consumption has not stopped to grow.

You do not lose you our mixesChaiAnd submerge you in the exotic aromas of the Indian.