Bittersweet: A History of Coffee, Tea & Chocolate

Bittersweet:

A History of Coffee,

Tea & Chocolate

Among the kind of teas, the bitter still exceeds the sweet,

But among them all, these tastes can both be found,

We know not indeed for whom they may be sweet or bitter,

We’ve picked till the ends of out pearly fingers are quite marred.

“A Ballad on Picking Tea in the Gardens in Springtime”The Chinese Empire and Its InhabitantsWilliams, Samuel Wells1849
Part of a much longer song attributed to Chinese tea pickers

This exhibit was researched and curated by the Spring 2020 Food History class, part of the Applied Food Studies program at the Culinary Institute of America.

Braeden Brown Alexander Case Frank Fazio-Grk

Pablo Fernandez Hailey Guerrasio Carolyn Hosannah

Eubene Kim Calista Marchand-Nazzaro Jacob Pittenger

Almudena Piza Owen Vermette

In addition, we would like to thank Michael Harney for hosting us at Harney's & Sons for a tour and tasting

and Nicole Semenchuk, CIA archivist.

Image: "The Coffee Shop Menu," [Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, NY] c. 1971-1978. CIA Special Collections and Archives.

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