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My second ‘Travel with Tea’ event, exploring traditional herbal infusions from South America. Ethnobotany I took an ethnobotanical angle to research for this event. Ethnobotany is the study of people-plant relationships, and is very interdisciplinary, incorporating political ecology, pharmacology, anthropology, geography, nutrition, linguistics and environmental studies (Nolan et al., 2011). Its methods include “note taking, photography, tape and video recording, statistics,

A write-up of my 'Around the Ancient World with Tea' event, exploring the infusions of ancient civilisations from Mesopotamia to Mesoamerica! Is there a tea archeology? When I was preparing to research infusions for ‘Around the Ancient World with Tea,’ I wondered whether there was a ‘tea archaeology.’ There’s a well-documented modern history of tea, but when we look further back into the ancient world there are a lot less historical sources to choose from. There is a field of