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  <title>Obsessives: The Proper Cup of Tea</title>
  <published_at>Wed Sep 12 13:11:00 -0700 2007</published_at>
  <link>http://www.chow.com/stories/10721</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <short_description>James Norwood Pratt is steeped in it</short_description>
  <long_description>James Norwood Pratt is steeped in it.</long_description>
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  <author>Meredith Arthur and Eric Slatkin</author>
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	<h1>Obsessives: The Proper Cup of Tea</h1>


	<h3> By Meredith Arthur and Eric Slatkin</h3>


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Tea: It&#8217;s so much more than a small afternoon pleasure. Connoisseur James Norwood Pratt puts tea in context, as not only &#8220;one of the world&#8217;s greatest handmade works of art,&#8221; but an antiwar palliative. Along the way, he weighs in on Starbucks, tea bags, and water quality.

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<p class="author_bio_new"> <em>This is a regular series called <a class="red" href="http://www.chow.com/stories/86/category">Obsessives</a>, in which CHOW explores the worlds of singularly focused food-industry figures. These are the people with the dirty hands, answering detailed questions about the work they do.</em></p>]]>
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