Talk: “Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups”

Event Date:
November 17, 2022 – 4:30 PM to 5:45 PM

Location:
Building CHHS, Room 376

Join the Departments of History and Languages and Culture Studies in welcoming Professor Robert Hellyer from Wake Forest University, who will deliver a talk on his 2021 book Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups.

Today, Americans are some of the world’s biggest consumers of black teas; in Japan, green tea, especially sencha, is preferred. These national partialities, Robert Hellyer reveals, are deeply entwined. Tracing the trans-Pacific tea trade from the eighteenth century onward, Green with Milk and Sugar shows how interconnections between Japan and the United States have influenced the daily habits of people in both countries.