The Washington Post, January 7th, 1998
If you've recently been hiking in the Himalayan foothills, or around Dupont Circle, you may have smelled the chai brewing. It's all the buzz (and good for one as well) -- a milky, spiced black tea drink (in many languages chai simply means "tea") that is native to India and Nepal, with a heady aroma of cardamom and cinnamon. Around the Circle, it's coffee's biggest competitor. At Teaism, the cool teahouse-restaurant west of the Circle, chai is by far the most popular drink. Forty gallons are brewed and sold each weekend. "It's an easy sell. All you have to do is say: Taste this," says co-owner...
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