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How to Have a Very German Tea Ceremony
In East Frisia, a different brew reigns supreme.
How to Have a Very German Tea Ceremony
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It may come as a surprise to hear that coffee is Germany’s most popular drink, rather than beer. The population, on average, consumes 6.5 kilos (14.3 pounds) of coffee per person, annually. But in one tiny German region, another brew entirely reigns supreme.
East Frisia, located in the German state of Lower Saxony, is intensely proud of its long-held tea tradition. In fact, a German tea association once estimated that East Frisians drink more tea than anyone else on earth, at 300 liters, or nearly 80 gallons per person per year. “Germans are coffee drinkers. But in North Germany, people like drinking tea. And East Frisians especially drink a lot of black tea,” says Sabrina Roth, an educator at the East Frisian Tea Museum in Norden, Lower Saxony.
ANALYSIS: What genetic analysis reveals about the ancestry of SA’s Afrikaners
This article first appeared on The Conversation.
The story of human history is one of migrations over the globe and admixture – the exchange of DNA – between populations.
Two of the most dramatic of these migrations were slavery and European colonisation. The subsequent admixture between slaves, Europeans and indigenous populations led to the formation of new populations. One, at the southern tip of Africa, was a group that became known as Afrikaners.
Afrikaners predominantly stem from Dutch, French and German immigrants who settled in the Cape, in South Africa, during the second half of the 17th century and the first half of the 18th. Although later European immigrants were also absorbed into the population, their genetic contribution was comparatively small. Another small but significant genetic contribution came from slaves and the local, indigenous Khoekhoe and San populations. These groups we
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What genetic analysis reveals about the ancestry of SA’s Afrikaners Their ancestors were mostly Dutch, French and German, with 4.7% of their DNA found to be non-European 20 May 2021 - 21:04 By Jaco Greeff and Carina Schlebusch
The story of human history is one of migrations over the globe and admixture the exchange of DNA between populations.
Two of the most dramatic of these migrations were slavery and European colonisation. The subsequent admixture between slaves, Europeans and indigenous populations led to the formation of new populations. One, at the southern tip of Africa, was a group that became known as Afrikaners.
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