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Transcript: In Kenya, Tea Auction Steeped In Tradition, Gentility
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RENEE MONTAGNE
NPR Morning Edition
09-16-2009
In Kenya, Tea Auction Steeped In Tradition, Gentility
Host: RENEE MONTAGNE
Time 10:00-11:00 AM
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RENEE MONTAGNE, host:
In the cool hills high above Nairobi, Kenya, where the people live among the clouds, there are giant tea trees more than a hundred years old. They include the first tea trees ever planted in Kenya, back when it was called British East Africa.
Today, Kenya exports more black tea than any other country in the world. And as NPR's Gwen Thompkins reports, the Mombasa Tea Auction may be one of the last places on earth where Old World manners prevail.
(Soundbite of gavel hitting)
GWEN THOMPKINS: Listen closely, because at ...