Ever since I was a small child, I’ve been a tea drinker. My maternal grandmother and my Aunt Rose, in a good-natured but earnest struggle to ensure that my young tastes would grow to embrace their beverage of choice as opposed to my father’s family’s coffee-drinking traditions, put water-thinned tea in my bottle as a baby in hope that I’d develop a taste for it. It worked. For now, amid the present national infatuation with coffee, I still cling firmly to tea as my drink of choice. My wife and daughter do likewise, although while they prefer theirs with milk and sugar, I like to drink mine unsweetened and unclouded by milk in order better to appreciate its many subtle yet complex flavors. Not surprisingly, my taste in tea is quite similar to my taste in a number of other things – including politics.
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