Quotation of the Day…
by Don Boudreaux
on January 4, 2026
… is from page 189 of Johan Norberg’s wonderful 2025 book, Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages:
Tea was a drink for royals and nobles until Song [dynasty] farmers transformed tea cultivation from wild plants to controlled farming. It was not nature or tradition, but trade and productivity, that turned rice and tea into staples of the Chinese household.
