In its nearly 300-year history, this Russian "kettle" has metamorphosed from an expensive household item and family heirloom into an object hidden away to collect dust during the post-Soviet period, ...

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Doha, Qatar – Mohammed Ali, a restaurateur in Qatar’s capital Doha, tells a story about a female customer who would come to his shop every day with a flask to have it filled with karak tea. One day, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the world’s best hotels, restaurants and wine. Outside of Brooklyn’s gargantuan Russian banquet halls—where the flow of ...

A samovar, a tall metal container that heats water to make tea, is well known in Russia, but often is confusing to browsing customers at an antique show. The anatomy of the samovar, first made in ...

A new exhibit devoted to the origins and history of the Russian tea ceremony and the samovar has opened at the All-Russian Decorative Art Museum in Moscow. An RBTH correspondent spoke with the curator ...

Samovar, an organic and sustainable tea company in San Francisco, recently decided to temporarily close all of its physical locations and will instead move online with tea and seminars. “The origin of ...

There are two drinks most people associate with Russia — vodka and tea, prepared in a giant hot-water urn known as a samovar. Yet while vodka may have actually originated in Russia (Poland is another ...

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For as long as I can remember, the golden samovar — a Russian teapot of sorts — has rested somewhere high in our home. In our first house, it sat imposingly on a shelf above the staircase. In our ...