She arrives, Ngai speculates, aboard the steamship Colorado in August 1868, a lone 11-year-old on a vessel that carries "20,000 packets of tea and silk, along with 80 passengers in cabin class and 800 Chinese in steerage".
Among the charred ruins of the old market, which was destroyed in the fighting, people sell what little they have managed to grow or get their hands on: small piles of grain; packets of tea; local cigarettes and Panashiba batteries.
It is 20 years since the Fairtrade Foundation mark appeared on British shelves, and its founders have cause to celebrate a certification system that has far exceeded the quality and reach of the early packets of tea and coffee.
To appease this, after a while she got out her shoebox full of the collectible cards that came free with packets of tea, then sat down at the table-tennis table and began doggedly pasting these into their places in her albums.
At K's shop, the tables were scattered with notepads and packets of tea and an insane number of pots—some triangular, some heavy-bellied, some iron, some clay.
In this study participants were asked to drink five packets of tea every day.
Hidden at the back of your kitchen cupboard, that old packet of chamomile tea bags is in reality the source of thousands of seeds.
The interventions consisted of packets of green tea, black tea, caffeinated water, or placebo.
