Today I had the pleasure of tasting Rosewater Iced Tea for the first time. My daughter and I discovered it at the Mediterranean Deli on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. When I saw it, I knew it was something special. I tried it, and ended up drinking more glasses of it than I care to admit. It was delicious: a traditional Southern (sweetened) iced tea - with a hint of something more.
After that fortuitous find, and a filling lunch, I did a little online research where I learned that rosewater tea is also sometimes referred to as Lebanese tea or Persian tea. Online you can find many recipes for brewing rosewater tea.
See a wonderful article on this particular iced tea from this particular deli in the online journal, Southern Things which is "a student edited and authored online journal of writing on Southern material culture published at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill." As this article succinctly states, The Mediterranean Deli's rosewater tea simultaneously offers customers "the comfort of the familiar and the thrill of the exotic."
I think that sums it up nicely.
I have never heard of rosewater tea, but I sure do like the idea! Sounds like a very refreshing twist on traditional sweet tea, and now I know to be on the lookout for it. Thanks for your review! :)
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