Reading The Afghan Draw Down Tea Leaves. 1 minute read. By TIME Staff. June 21, 2011 9:22 AM EDT.

Press Release - The first ever International Tea Day, backed by the United Nations, takes place on 21 May. We take a look at the challenges facing the global tea industry, and how it can build ...

Reading Tea Leaves, by a "Highland Seer," is the oldest book on the subject in English. Written in the 18th century, it offered sets of symbols to interpret tea-leaf patterns.

“You’re taking the metals out of the water with the tea, but you don’t consume the tea leaves after, which is why it works,” said Benjamin Shindel, the study’s lead author, who at the ...