Root Vegetables

[Procne]

Still, tea originitaes from Asia and that's where it's mostly cultivated.
Tea was transported overseas to colonial America from Europe.

Coffee is not native to America as well, and it's cultivated in Africa mostly.

Cocoa comes from America if you are looking for some beverages.
And a whole set of alcohols made from potatoes, corn, agave, sugar.

[aragaer]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but I believe it was Marco Polo that first introduced tea to Europe well before the colonial period.

Introduced, yes. But

The importing of tea into Britain began in the 1660s with the marriage of King Charles II to the Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza, who brought to the court the habit of drinking tea.

Which is _close_ to the period we're playing. But

By the end of the seventeenth century tea was taken as a drink, albeit mainly by the aristocracy. In 1690 nobody would have predicted that by 1750 tea would be the national drink.

So while the tea itself is known and heard of, almost no one drinks it yet.