ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia
In the time of the great Khans a caravan laden with four “poods” of tea found favor with Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich but the “outlandish dried leaf” baffled his court.
A pood is a Russian unit of mass equal to 40 funt, loosely translated it means “a very lar
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