Rooibos Tea
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/drink/2011/06/rooibos_tea.html If you haven't heard of it, you will soon. By Jessica Grose Loose rooibos tea The first time I drank rooibos (also called red bush) was two months ago at the most fashionable cafe in my Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood— Café Pedlar . It's a robust herbal tisane (not technically a tea), and its flavor has an almost tobacco-like, nutty quality. Dan Torres, the general manager of the cafe and a New York Times -anointed "tastemaker," called it a "coffee drinker's tea." Once I had rooibos at Pedlar, I started noticing it everywhere: It is an essential ingredient in a tea sold where I get acupuncture that promises to "sweep toxins away" ; it's part of an organic-skin-care line's age-defying serum ; it's even on the menu at the famous Russian Tea Room . These are just anecdotal observations, but there's also real data suggesting that rooibos is growing in popularity....