Pepin Lecture: Green with Milk and Sugar
When:
Friday, Apr 01, 2022 12:00p -
1:00p
Friday, Apr 01, 2022 12:00p -
1:00p
Where:
Boston University
808 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 124
Boston, MA 02215
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
History, Lectures & Conferences, University
Event website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pepin-lecture-green-with-milk-and-sugar-tickets-255456937577?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Spring 202 Pépin Lecture Series in Food Studies & Gastronomy with Robert Hellyer, Associate Professor of History, Wake Forest University
About this event:
You are welcome to register to attend in person or via zoom. Zoom registrants will receive a Zoom link one day before the program.
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.
Hellyer explores the forgotten American penchant for Japanese green tea and how it shaped Japanese tastes. In the nineteenth century, Americans favored green teas, which were imported from China until Japan developed an export industry centered on the United States. The influx of Japanese imports democratized green tea: Americans of all classes, particularly Midwesterners, made it their daily beverage—which they drank hot, often with milk and sugar. In the 1920s, socioeconomic trends and racial prejudices pushed Americans toward black teas from Ceylon and India. Facing a glut, Japanese merchants aggressively marketed sencha on their home and imperial markets, transforming it into an icon of Japanese culture.
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