Preparing Tea and Herbals
How to properly prepare teas and herbals.
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“Tea-Drinking at Breakfast” by Leigh Hunt
According to his Wikipedia summary, James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784 –1859), better known as just Leigh Hunt, was “an English critic, essayist, poet and writer.” His own work was overshadowed by that of his more famous friends, such as the poets John Keats and Percy Shelley, but he published a number of books in his… Continue reading
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Thoughts on the Future of Tea
If you wanted to make a few cautious generalizations about the future of tea – as I’m about to do – you could start by taking a look at the past. At its most basic, tea is a relatively simple thing, at least in comparison to something like a computer or an iPhone. Which is… Continue reading
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Surprised By Tea
Sometimes a tea will surprise you. Not that this is necessarily a good thing. For me, at least, there have been good tea surprises and there have been bad ones. Obviously, I’d prefer the former but sometimes in this life we have to take the hand (or tea) we’re dealt. I’ve learned to like Keemun… Continue reading
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How to Handle Your Teabag
To dunk or not to dunk? To squeeze or not to squeeze? I suspect that for many people who use a teabag to prepare tea it’s probably quite common to dunk the bag repeatedly and to squeeze it when you’re finished. There are even specially constructed tongs that are designed to assist with the latter… Continue reading
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Cold Infusing Tea 101
There many ways to prepare tea. You can do it the old school way with a tea kettle and a teapot. You can do it in a more newfangled way (guilty) with water heated in a microwave and a gravity type infuser. Or the even more newfangled method of using a fancy gadget that does… Continue reading
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More Tips on Steeping That Perfect Pot of Tea
The tips just keep coming. It seems that everyone who has ever steeped tea has the perfect method (even author George Orwell). And I’m here to present even more tips on steeping that perfect pot of tea. I’m going to begin by defining the goal here a bit better. Let’s think about a few things.… Continue reading
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Gongfu Simplified
The British have lots of articles about how to steep the perfect cuppa tea. But more and more things are changing in the UK, with the gongfu style of tea steeping becoming better known. Here in the U.S. there seems to be more interest in it, too. For you busy folks, though, it can seem… Continue reading
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Some Things I’ve Learned About Iced Tea
I don’t drink hot tea anymore. I wrote about it here, so I won’t cover it again except to say that it’s always iced tea season for me. But here in the northern hemisphere spring is in full swing and summer is approaching, and so one could safely say that it’s coming up on iced… Continue reading
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Why the British Hate Our Tea
Many British seem to have some very specific opinions about how tea should be done. Which is not surprising, I guess, given that tea has pretty much been an institution there for longer than we Americans have had a country. As I just mentioned in a recent article for this site, perhaps one of the… Continue reading
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