el cafe, por dar solo un ejemplo, no proviene de Sudamerica hablaba mucho cuando estaba en el SudamÃ©rica hacia el abrazo de SudamÃ©rica our article Plantas de SudamÃ©ricaâ - grammar Presidente SudamÃ©rica SudamÃ©rica vs. AmÃ©rica del Sur SudamÃ©rica vs. AmÃ©rica del Sur Viajar por SudamÃ©rica
A tablespoon is a non-scientific but very widely used unit of volume, which works very well in cooking, herbal medicine, etc. It is represented by a capacity of one tablespoon which varies from roughly 15 mL in the US to 20 mL in Australia.
Depends on what country you're in and who wrote the recipe (assuming it's a recipe). In Australia, 20 ml is one tablespoon. In the US/UK/Canada, a tablespoon is 15 ml and a teaspoon is 5 ml (the US version is actually 4.92892159375 ml, but 5 is good enough for cooking). This confusion over the definitions of a measurement unit is why the world moved to metric.