30 September 2015 EVENTSFall USTA Monika Brzywczy Drooping leaves from trees can change the course of history, as it happened nearly 5,000 years ago in the mountainous south of China, when a few leaves of tea fell into Emperor’s Shen Nong bowl with water. This is - according to a legend – how one of the most important beverages in our civilization was created. We devote attention to the tea in the fall issue of USTA.