August 2012
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Teas from Africa: Overview
Teas from Africa are in many of the top brands these days. (We’re talking about true teas here, not Rooibos.) Yet, tea growing in Africa started relatively recently — in the 1880s in the country of Malawi, about 40 years after tea cultivation began in Darjeeling, India, and almost 60 years after the Camellia Sinensis… Continue reading
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Blue Mooning Over Blue Q Tea
Remember the song “Blue Moon”? The song was about a lonely guy wanting his love to appear, then she appears, then his is happy. Well, that’s why tea lovers can go blue mooning over Blue Q tea. Flavors to yearn for, now they’re here! Originally concocted by company co-owners and brothers Mitch and Seth Nash… Continue reading
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Tea Gadget and Offbeat News, Part ?
I’ve lost track of how many of these gadget and offbeat news reports I’ve done thus far (which serves to explain the ?), but that doesn’t mean that the well of gadgets and news has come anywhere close to running dry. Perish the thought. So let’s get on with it. One of the more curious… Continue reading
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Tea and the Olympics: Track and Field
Track and Field is an extensive Olympic sport, consisting of 47 separate events: 26 running events, 3 walking events, 16 field events, the decathlon (men) and heptathlon (women). They are spread over ten days during this Olympics, but if you are only going to watch one, I would suggest the 11th of August, as all eight… Continue reading
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Tea Kettle Philosophy ― First Year French Class
Fill the kettle, set it on the stove, and turn on the heat — these tasks have become almost second nature and certainly don’t need a lot of brain power, leaving the majority of my mental capacity to ponder. Time to engage in some deep thoughts. Awhile back, I mentioned my French Lit class in… Continue reading
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Simon’s Crumbs
At some point everyone who enters the realm of estate and single-source tea – that is to say, good tea – encounters the leaf debate: Is whole-leaf tea the best form for making the best tea? The purist’s argument goes that broken leaves have too many surfaces that allow all the tasty and aromatic oils… Continue reading
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Turn STRESSED into DESSERTS
The other day, hubby and I learned how to turn stressed into desserts — just reverse the order of the letters! Ha! All kidding aside, you can go from being stressed to living the sweet life. It’s not a magic act. But tea certainly plays a part. Fruit-flavored Teas Apples and cherries and lemons… oh,… Continue reading
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Tea in America – Some History
For those of us enamored of the many charms of tea it’s easy sometimes to forget that we’re rather a minority here in these great United States. Contrary to what many may believe, however, Americans didn’t suddenly swear off drinking tea after the events of the Boston Tea Party. These days we’re best known for… Continue reading
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Whether Weather Affects Tea
An item on Facebook about drought affecting Assam tea started me wondering whether weather really has an effect on tea. The answer: Well, duh! Of course it does! The real question is “How?” So, I went digging online to see what the “experts” had to say. Not as easy as you would think. The Assam… Continue reading
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Resurrecting Classic Teas
As someone who spends a fair amount of time studying and writing about the history of tea I can’t help wondering occasionally about some of the teas people drank in days gone by. Wondering specifically, that is, what those teas tasted like. Of course, unless I manage to lay my hands on a time machine,… Continue reading
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