Austria

I wasn't sure that I would have a post about Austria. Austria is a landlocked country in the middle of Europe. It's an important trade route between eastern and western Europe. Vienna was once the seat of the holy Roman empire, and is known for its architecture, and the Alps run down the middle of the country. 2/3 of the country is covered by forests and meadows.

Austria has been known for its musicians, Beethoven, Brahms, Haydn, Mozart, the list goes on. Visual arts took their own turn away from the mainstream in 1897, and the realism gave way to modern art and surrealism.

YouTube gave me a "Drunk History" style video about making tea. At the end, the tea was shunned in favor of more alcohol. I also found that coffee is popular in Austria. Coffee was described as "the national past time since the Turkish wars". Then Mai Leaf came to the rescue.


So, what gets sold in Austrian grocery stores?





The video had black and green Darjeeling loose leaf tea. This is the only Darjeeling. I have. We've been there, done that.












They also had the ever popular gunpowder green tea. I can obviously find that in my local grocery store as well. It is quite meh.












At the end, he also had some matcha to try. I know that Don would consider my matcha to be very low quality. I know that it is. When I bought it, I was told that there was some Kenyan green tea in it as well, so my take away was that this is not 100% matcha. It's been cut with something else.









Thankfully the color of my matcha is still a little better than the color of the matcha in the video.











I'm getting down to the end of my tin of matcha. I know in this country, people put it in their beloved (stupid) smoothies (jeez, chew your food people!). Anyway, Here's a cup of matcha for Austria.










Comments

  1. Poppy CrockerSeptember 15, 2019 at 8:03 PM

    I see matcha in everything, but I've never tried it.

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    1. Lace makerSeptember 16, 2019 at 3:57 AM

      It is way over hyped. Not that it isn't good if you get good quality tea, but it's not the cute all super food everyone makes it out to be.

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