{"id":253,"date":"2016-11-15T15:47:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T21:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/?p=253"},"modified":"2016-11-20T21:28:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T03:28:33","slug":"chai-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/2016\/11\/15\/chai-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Chai 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-264 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/11\/img_6391-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"img_6391\" width=\"676\" height=\"901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/11\/img_6391-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/11\/img_6391-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/11\/img_6391-676x901.jpg 676w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/11\/img_6391.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I first experienced chai in 10th\u00a0grade. I was visiting my friend Michaela in Germany and we ducked into a Starbucks to escape the chilly weather. It was my first time in a Starbucks and I didn\u2019t know where to begin. Did I want small, or a tall? Were they the same thing? Because tall doesn\u2019t sound very small. My mind hadn\u2019t even begun to process the crowded menu.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, my friend ordered for me and placed a chai latte in my hands. I took one sip and knew I had a favorite drink. In a world of coffee drinkers, I had found my place. Chai tasted like Christmas in a cup and warmed me from my head to my toes.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, I have tried chai lattes in countless coffee shops in countless cities. I have found though, I don\u2019t actually know that much about my beloved tea. I know which coffee shops in Austin have the best, worst, cheapest, and most expensive chai but I don\u2019t know the history behind the drink or what spices make chai, chai. So this is my \u201cChai 101,\u201d a brief look at the history and Westernization of my favorite drink plus recipes and other tidbits. Pour yourself a cup of chai and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Read the rest on my <a href=\"https:\/\/courtneyrunn.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/06\/chai-101\/\">blog<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first experienced chai in 10th\u00a0grade. I was visiting my friend Michaela in Germany and we ducked into a Starbucks to escape the chilly weather. It was my first time in a Starbucks and I didn\u2019t know where to begin. Did I want small, or a tall? Were they the same thing? Because tall doesn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[25,27,26],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annotated-bibliography","tag-chai","tag-drinks","tag-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}