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ORGANIC TEA – Great Reassurance or Just Another Word In The Marketing Jungle? Part 3
See Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. Reading through the first two parts of this article, which had been planned as a 2-part article only, it came to me that two quite significant aspects regarding organic tea cultivation and organic certification of teas are missing there: once, the question of at which point… Continue reading
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The Teaist Manifesto
In the last book column I wrote for this site I made mention of a book I’d run across that had to do with coffee, of all things. Let me once again make it perfectly clear that I have not gone over to the dark side. I’m pretty sure that I’ll be a tea drinker… Continue reading
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Recent and Upcoming Tea Books IV
As I was gearing up to write the latest edition of this column I thought I would browse through Amazon’s Kindle store, looking for books on a certain topic (first two guesses don’t count). As I did so, I found myself amazed and slightly befuddled at how many versions there are of Kakuzo Okakura’s influential… Continue reading
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Is It a Tea Garden, Plantation, or Estate?
A quick look around the internet will show you that when it comes to the word used to describe land where tea is grown, there is no consensus. You’ll see tea gardens, tea plantations, tea estates, tea plots, and so on. Is any one of these right or preferred? Official Definitions A very official source… Continue reading
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What the 800-Pound Gorilla Has to Say About Tea
If you’re of a certain age, you might recall popular commercials for a certain stockbroker (if not, you can always turn to YouTube). After the mere mention of their name reliably caused an entire room to go silent, the proceedings closed with the catchphrase, “when E.F. Hutton talks, people listen.” Which is a roundabout way… Continue reading
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Organic Tea – Great Reassurance or Just Another Word in the Marketing Jungle? Part 2
As we have learnt in part 1 of this article, buying “organic” tea might arguably be our best option to protect ourselves from the possible health hazards arising from the use of pesticides in tea cultivation, at least at first sight. A closer look reveals a different picture, though: “Paper doesn’t blush”, as they say,… Continue reading
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Monthly Tea Gadget and Offbeat News Report VI
Is drinking tea bad for you? Well, apparently it is if you drink it to ridiculous excess. Of course, you could probably make the argument that anything you consume in ridiculous amounts becomes bad for you. A recent report in the New England Journal of Medicine has garnered a rather ridiculous amount of press in… Continue reading
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Tea and Tea Blending – The Book
If you pick up the book Tea and Tea Blending expecting to read about the latter topic you might come away mildly disappointed. There are only a few brief chapters of this 151-page book devoted to the topic, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth taking a look at. If you’re looking for more of… Continue reading
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Tea Developments, Monthly Report April 2013
Here’s a quick look at some tea developments that may not necessarily be new but are still not in the mainstream of tea drinkers’ awareness. Tea Harvests Progress First flush teas are generally harvested in March and April, depending on their location. In China: Pre-Qing teas are harvested from about March 30th through April 5th,… Continue reading
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Organic Tea – Great Reassurance or Just Another Word in the Marketing Jungle? Part 1
In our modern world and economy, the “healthyness” of food products has become a great concern for the majority of consumers. This applies especially for the so-called developed countries, where food products are a huge and highly differentiated industry, and where consumers have the choice between a wide range of prices, qualities and sets of… Continue reading
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