Coffee prices have you down? Meet North America’s own hot brewed pickup: Yaupon tea

Coffee prices have you down? Meet North America’s own hot brewed pickup: Yaupon tea

Near the end of a lecture this fall, Middle Georgia State University history professor Matt Jennings began wrapping things up in an unusual way. Jennings put one of those big thermoses with a pumping plunger on the desk near where he’d been running through an overview of the Indigenous people of North America around the time of European contact. “Now, this morning at 8 o’clock, this was screamingly hot,” he said as he began dosing out a small pa…