Desert Camp Brew · Wild Herb Infusion
Bedouin Sage Tea (Maramiya)
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The sage is usually foraged wild from the desert scrub rather than bought — the same hillside walk that gathers firewood for the fire also gathers the tea itself.
Fresh or dried desert sage leaves are steeped directly in a pot of black tea and sugar over an open fire, producing a strong, herbal, faintly minty brew. Bedouin encampments and market stalls across the Negev pour it hot from the same fire used for coffee, often as the drink that follows it.
Why it's made this way: Wild sage grows across the Negev's scrubland, and Bedouin communities have long brewed it into tea as an easy, foraged addition to their fire-side hospitality routine alongside coffee.
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