There’s one other trick to staying cool in Niger.
Drinking hot tea. While it sounds like it’d make an already hot day feel like an inferno, it is the opposite. The hot liquid makes you perspire… and the tiny beads of sweat catch the slightest breeze, cooling you off. That’s what our tour guide in Tunisia told me, anyway (they do the same thing all over North Africa).
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There’s one other trick to staying cool in Niger.
Drinking hot tea. While it sounds like it’d make an already hot day feel like an inferno, it is the opposite. The hot liquid makes you perspire… and the tiny beads of sweat catch the slightest breeze, cooling you off. That’s what our tour guide in Tunisia told me, anyway (they do the same thing all over North Africa).
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Ingredients
- 2 tsp green tea
- 2 1/2 cups boiling water
- 12 sage leaves
- sugar , to taste
Servings: people
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Instructions
- Let all ingredients steep together for 4-5 minutes. Traditionally this would be made very sweet. Serve in small glass teacups from your local Middle Eastern market, if possible.