September 2009
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Tea and Spirits
By William I. Lengeman III The next time you can’t decide whether to have a drink or a cup of tea, maybe it’s time to consider sampling a beverage that combines both in one bottle. If you thought Long Island Iced Tea was the ultimate combination of tea and alcohol, well, not so fast. This… Continue reading
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Tea Moments — The Kids Are in School
The school supplies have been bought, packed neatly into the kids’ backpacks, and await their chance to help your kids be the sterling scholars you know them to be. Your kids are outfitted in the latest “must have” fashions and equipped with the latest gadgets. These are all signs of one thing: It’s “Back to… Continue reading
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Tea Taster – A Tea Lover’s Dream Job
By William I. Lengeman III To many of us tea-lovers, tea-taster might seem like the ultimate profession, a vocation as desirable as the fabled mattress tester. Tea tasting may conjure images of a crackling fire, a plate of delicacies and bottomless wells of fine tea, but in reality tasting tea for a living is hard… Continue reading
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Rooibos: South Africa’s “Redbush” Herbal
Rooibos is a South African herbal “tea” whose popularity has grown by leaps and bounds in the course of the past decade. According to one source, worldwide export sales of the plant grew by 400 percent in a five-year span ending in 2003. Rooibos (Aspalathus linearis) takes its name from an African word of Dutch… Continue reading
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Instant Tea
The question is, “Are you really in that big of a hurry that you cannot boil water for a cup of tea?” Developed in the 1930s instant tea did not find a commercial application until the 1950s. Soluble teas are certainly convenient, and there is heated debate about whether that is worth sacrificing the flavor… Continue reading
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Observations of a Tea Drinker: The Cardinal’s Nest
Springtime brings out the birdwatcher in me and combines well with my life as a tea aficionado. There’s nothing like grabbing a steaming cupful and staring out the kitchen window or patio doors to see these feathered fliers flitting among the ever-increasing palette of blooms in our garden or thorny roses on the trellis against… Continue reading
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More About Sun Tea
This is a follow-up to the article that I wrote on the dangers of sun tea, The Dark Side of Sun Tea, this past June. While I still hold that it’s wise to avoid making tea by this method, there is less clear evidence about the topic than I had previously been led to believe.… Continue reading
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British East India Company, part 2
by Stephanie Hanson Part 2 The British East India Company used opium as a way to raise revenue from the Chinese people to then buy the tea that the English people clamored for. The powerful company practically destroyed the agricultural economy in parts of India, where opium began to dominate the landscape — opium that… Continue reading
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Tea Quality
There are over three thousand varieties of tea, and it would be nice if there were a way to gauge the quality of your tea, even perhaps to grade it. There is, but since tea grades do not follow a worldwide standard, communication is difficult. Green and oolong tealeaves are usually whole and not graded,… Continue reading
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British East India Company, part 1
by Stephanie Hanson Part 1 On New Year’s Eve, 1600, Queen Elizabeth chartered the East India Company. She could hardly have known the lasting impact that that charter would have over the next several centuries. When the English saw the success of the Portuguese in trading with China, they jumped in, along with the Dutch… Continue reading
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