If you think that enjoying green tea is a relatively new occupation in the United States, a Zoom talk for New York’s culinary historians will put you on the right track. Robert Hellyer, associate professor of history at Wake Forest University and the author of “Green Tea with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups,” will explain how Japanese green tea became popular in 19th-century America.
New York Culinary Historians, “What’s in Your Cup? Green Tea with Milk and Sugar,” May 9 at 6:30 p.m., free to members, $10 to nonmembers, cuisinehistorianny.org.
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