So This Is Christmas

Merry Christmas is such an infectious feeling I like to feel that way all year around.

So if you are visiting just before Christmas, just after Christmas or even here on Christmas day I am sure you will find something of interest for you and in the spirit of Christmas.

It may be said that Christmas is no longer a celebration but this must be spoken by people that have never had trouble closing their eyes on Christmas Eve in an expectation of what maybe left for them on the carpet under the tree.

I continue to look forward to the surprise on my Grandchild's faces to this day at Christmas events.

Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Since then tea would for ever be linked with Buddhism.

By Fabio Itonga

Either coffee or tea is available at your favorite coffee house anywhere on the planet. Why aren't they called "tea and coffee" or "coffee and tea" or "tea houses?" Is there a universal plot built in opposition to tea? Let's glimpse back in time and have a look at the history of both coffee and tea to examine why the coffee house is king.

History of Tea
The unearthing of history of tea began more than 5,000 years back in China. The Emperor was meeting in his home sipping on a little H2O from the stream that had been boiled, once some foliage from a close by plant blew into it. He observed the juice was brown so he gave it a sip, found it refreshing, and liked the zip it put in his power level.

Tea drinking rapidly extended to every home in China. Tea was at that time returned to Japan by a Buddhist Monk who brought tea seeds after a trip to China and found that tea strongly affected and assisted in his meditating making his concentration easier. Since that point in time tea would for ever be linked with Buddhism.

After the assault by Japan on Pearl Harbor, a lot of the population associated tea with the ritual the Kamikaze Pilots did previous to their assignments. Then, in expectation, tea has by no means made an absolute resurgence. Its relationship through the warfare, and the organization tea has concerning the world with religious services, even these days, avoids it from sharing the exhibition area with King Coffee.

History of Coffee
With almost zero coffee houses, the coffee bean had started growing from the earth in Ethiopia at about the tenth century. It was not long in anticipation of its journey into Northern Africa, as Arab traders traveled the trading routes that communities began the business of cultivating the valuable plant.

Before long, the tasty product had been traded well beyond the boarders of Europe and India. The earliest coffee house was Kiva Han that commenced business in Istanbul in 1471. Coffee came to Europe through Italy, through the services of Muslim traders.

A main explanation that coffee is king if you are a Muslim, is that you're permitted to drink it. Muslims have a set limit of coffee in their meals. Furthermore, in 1600, coffee got a big boost when Pope Clement permitted it over the opposition of a number of church officials who felt that the Muslim beverage was immoral and objected.

Once you comprise all the Muslims and Catholics together, you contain a huge marketplace. This group is in possession of their own coffee in their own houses every day. For the duration of World War II, drinking coffee, was a happy pastime as was tea drinking.

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