Category: CULTURAL HISTORY & HERITAGE
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Kuka, is Quechua and means unique, excellent and sacred, it’s the name of the coca plant and leaf. Khoka, the Aymara word… read more
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Discover the legend of coca, God Inti’s gift to Peru and Bolivia Within a minute of our first steps onto the street,… read more
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Timeline of yerba mate read more
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Discover legends, myths and folklore of the Banyan tree in India and its ritual use in Desi culture. As Kalpavriksha or Banyan… read more
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Written by Joseph C. O’Mahoney, 1906. read more
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Italy and America read more
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Germany read more
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Norway read more
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The discovery of tea, Camellia sinensis, was ever a story of many dimensions, and the telling of the tale depended on the… read more
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The story of how tea was first discovered and then spread to all of the major countries on Earth is a fascinating… read more
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Throughout history, tea, Camellia sinensis, was intimately related to deities, demi gods, and mortals. In Japan, the monastic use of tea as… read more
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Tea was discovered accidentally by emperor Shennung, 神農氏, approximately 3000 years before Christ. Another tea account claims a Buddhist monk named Gan… read more
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The Ottoman coffeehouses, where Nasreddin Hodja works, couldn’t get better advertisement than its own delicious diverting roasting-coffee smell; which pulls locals and… read more
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Coffeehouses in Constantinople•Istanbul read more
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A tradition of Turkish folklore that took shape in Constantinople’s Ottoman coffeehouses is the Meddah, which sees a storyteller performing in front… read more
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Coffee Culture in Turkey and Istanbul, lokum and Fal or fortuneread read more
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There are many origin myths and much folklore about rice, it is believed that a goddesses gave rice to humans and taught… read more
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There’s more to rice than you think- Discover rice in Indonesian folk tales and legends. – Discover rice in Indonesian folk tales… read more
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It is believed that a goddesses gave rice to humans and taught them how to grow it. Religious use of rice takes… read more
