World Tea News, 1 March 10: On sale this week in the U.S. is a new book that tells of the British Government’s 19th-century plot to clandestinely acquire China’s tea secrets. . . . . For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World’s Favorite Drink and Changed History (in UK known as, For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula of the World’s Favourite Drink) tells the story of industrial spy Robert Fortune, who traveled to China on behalf of the East India Company in 1848 in order to infiltrate the tea farms of China’s interior and learn their secrets for growing and processing tea. A gardener and botanist by trade, Hunter was charged with delivering to the British the knowledge – and seedlings – to keep its tea trade alive.