Tea Caddy Used at Edenton Tea Party in 1774

Tea Caddy from the Edenton Tea Party
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What is the significance of a drink? Drinks serve as an anchor for social gatherings. In colonial America the most important drink was tea. Social occasions in the colonies, like in the motherland, tended to center around tea and teatime.[1] Like the English, colonists took their tea drinking seriously, consuming great quantities in much of the same fashion as modern Americans drink coffee. Two main forces competed in the te