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Tasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea (Sarah Besky) Bistro and filleting Russian fishWhat is the role of quality in contemporary capitalism? How is a product as ordinary as a bag of tea judged for its quality? In her innovative study, Sarah Besky addresses these questions by going inside an Indian auction house where experts taste and appraise mass market black tea, one of the worlds most recognized commodities. Pairing rich historical data with ethnographic research among agronomists, professional tea tasters and traders, and tea