Tea and Food

I eat Cookie and chocolate together mostly, when drinking tea. It is the time of extreme happiness. Is the thing with tea and sufficient affinity sweet? I will introduce the affinity of food and tea this time.

Although there is the word "tea food", there is no word a "coffee food", a "coke food", and "beer food". Affinity soft drink seems to be tea from good.

Considering the history of tea, the British aristocrat was enjoying afternoon tea. It was a light meal for burying the long hungry time of breakfast to supper. Aristocrats were not necessarily solving the ingredient of red chemically then. However, as a matter of fact, the tannin which is the main ingredients of tea makes a part for the fat in a mouth decompose and feel refreshed. Therefore, tea was the optimal when eating the cake fully using butter. It is known well that red wine will flush oil by tannin. Since tannin flushes the fat of meat, red wine is congenial to a meat dish. Although red wine is drunk from this fact to a change of tea, it is not unnatural at all.

When telling tea and food, there is one more important thing. It is the temperature of tea. Congenial food changes by whether tea is cold or warm.

60 ℃ or more …A cake, a tart, other sweets, cheese, etc.

40 to 50 ℃…Chinese food, a Japanese-style dish, cheese, etc.

Eight to 10 ℃…A steak, the French cuisine with main meat, the Italian cuisine,

3 to 5 ℃…Curry, the French cuisine with a main fish, the Italian cuisine, salad, etc.

Tea is not only a Western-style cake but Japanese sweets congenial for a surprising thing. Since tea is felt refreshed rather than green tea, it can taste the sweetness of Japanese sweets comfortably. Since tea with milk has fat more moderately than black tea, it makes light the butter of a Western-style cake, and the fat of whipped cream. That is, it is the principle of flushing thought fat with light fat.

In the United States, iced tea is often drunk during a meal. However, if it is iced tea 5 ℃ or less in the case of a meat dish, fat will solidify on the contrary. Therefore, as for the temperature of tea, about 8-10℃ is right just. Tea contains many tannin like wine. Therefore, affinity with cheese is good.

In addition, whether it is the food which what suits well also according to the kind of tea, such as Earl Grey and Darjeeling, changes. Foundations become important flushing the oil in a mouth. However, it was not necessarily decided completely. Of course, it is free to change the kind and food of tea by an individual's liking. I think that black tea is the most delicious in sweet sweets.