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If the English have imposed on Europe the taste for black tea, which they drink sweetened with a cloud of milk, green tea that has been consumed in China for five thousand years remains the drink of the vast majority of the peoples of Asia and the Maghreb. The best green tea gardens are found in mainland China, Formosa, and Japan. In China, the preparation of this tea has been more or less the same for immemorial time. In artisanal factories of cooperatives, the tea is roasted for less than a minute in large tanks, in order to destroy the enzymes of the leaves that could alter the quality of t..