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Enjoy these teas with my Honors students on Wednesday, December 12. From 3:20 to 4:10 that afternoon, we will be in the Atrium of the Conant Science Building (now known as DMF), where the Ben Linder Café could one day be located. From China and Ceylon, by way of Tealuxe in Providence clockwise from top-left Golden Monkey Keemum  (black) Ti-Quan Yin   Iron Goddess of Mercy (oolong)   Dragon Pearl Jasmine  (green) Yalta Evergreen Estate Ceylon  (black) Background I spent my 2012 sabbatical both learning more about  coffee  and expanding my interests to include tea . As part of that process, I was an informal observer at a meeting of the U.N. Intergovernmental Group on Tea. The meeting was much smaller than I expected -- even the hotel staff did not know what it was. The convener welcomed the 38 attendees as the "Captains of Tea." Plus me, the Coffee Maven. I think I was one of four U.S. citizens at the meeting, and I still remember a delegate from India who, when I asked how ma