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In 2015, after you were done gawking at the statue of Princess Di in the world’s largest department store, Harrods in London, you could head on over to the world-famous food halls where you could buy, among other high-priced indulgences, a type of tea branded “Ambootia Snow Mist.” At $7,864 per kilogram—enough to make about 300 cups—Snow Mist regularly made appearances More

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This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Saurav Sarkar Rupam Deb.

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