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Putting the “British” into a British Product
The U.S. is thought of as a melting pot of cultures, but they are not alone in this worldwide, at least not in recent years. Great Britain influenced so much of the world and was in turn influenced by it, and so qualifies as a melting pot. Tea, foods, spices, and much more from the… Continue reading
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“Home-Grown Tea” by George Frederick Mitchell
It’s been noted a number of times in these pages that the United States has never actually been a hotbed of tea production. But there was apparently enough interest in the topic that in 1907, the USDA released Farmers’ Bulletin 301 – Home-Grown Tea, by George Frederick Mitchell. It’s a brief but interesting work that… Continue reading
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Recent and Upcoming Tea Books 9
In my quest to keep up with the latest and greatest tea books I like to think I’m aware of most of what’s out there or is coming soon. But it appears that one slipped by me. It’s called A Social History of Tea and it’s by noted tea experts Jane Pettigrew and Bruce Richardson. It… Continue reading
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More Strange Research on Tea
We kick off this latest exploration of the strange research that’s been done on tea with a study that’s not necessarily all that strange but is quite interesting nonetheless. We might tend to think (well, I did) that studies on compounds in tea like catechins, EGCG and the like are a recent development. But in… Continue reading
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When Tea Came To Japan
The general consensus these days is that tea drinking and production got its start in China, a nation that still grows more tea than any other. There’s a quaint and persistent notion that tea was accidentally discovered there in exactly 2784 BC by a Chinese emperor, but the truth of the matter is probably a… Continue reading
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Humans vs. Machines in the Tea Fields
From the time human beings first began devising machines there have probably been other humans decrying the use of those machines and calling for a return to simpler ways. Perhaps one of the best known historical examples of this were the Luddites, 19th-century weavers who revolted at the introduction of machinery they worried would make… Continue reading
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Victoria Wood’s Nice Cup of Tea
If you’re like me and you live over here on the left side of the Atlantic, the name Victoria Wood might not mean that much to you. If you need to get up to speed, consider that, as a headline in one Canadian magazine put it, Wood is “The Funniest British Comedian You’ve Never Heard… Continue reading
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A Mistress and her Servant. – Dialogues on Trade in Tea and Sugar, Etc.
You could probably make a vocation out of studying those many and varied old texts about tea that are now available for free, in digital editions, if you were so inclined. Which would be great work if you could get it and I’ve written about quite a few of them at this site. Some are… Continue reading
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Recent and Upcoming Tea Books 8
Arguably one of the first books to truly take tea seriously, James Norwood Pratt’s Tea Lover’s Treasury came out in 1982 and predated the relatively recent upswing of interest in “fine” teas. If you’re looking for a copy of this book, it can seem a little confusing but (if I’ve got my story straight) it’s… Continue reading
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