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'''Tea''' is a beverage made by steeping leaves, usually from the plant ''Camellia sinensis'', in hot water.  
 
'''Tea''' is a beverage made by steeping leaves, usually from the plant ''Camellia sinensis'', in hot water.  
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Originating in [[China]], Tea is not mentioned in the bible.
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Originating in [[China]], Tea is not mentioned in the bible, although it is now grown throughout the world, and rivals the olive as the key cash crop of the Holy Land.
    
The drinking of tea is common throughout Asia, the British Isles, where it is often drunk with milk, and the former Soviet Union (especially Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transnistria, where it is increasingly replacing melon juice as the national drink). In [[Tibet]], tea is drunk with fermented [[yak]] butter. Some types of tea are never drunk with milk anywhere, such as Earl Grey.
 
The drinking of tea is common throughout Asia, the British Isles, where it is often drunk with milk, and the former Soviet Union (especially Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transnistria, where it is increasingly replacing melon juice as the national drink). In [[Tibet]], tea is drunk with fermented [[yak]] butter. Some types of tea are never drunk with milk anywhere, such as Earl Grey.
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