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Making Wine from Tea?
Disclaimer: The English Tea Store Blog encourages you to drink responsibly. This is not the first time I’ve written about tea and alcohol and, more specifically, about those alcoholic beverages made or flavored with tea. Here’s a link to one of my most recent such articles, which has to do with beer and related beverages… Continue reading
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Get Pinterested in Tea
Where do you draw the line when it comes to social media? There are only 24 hours in each day, and if you sign on to every one of the zillion or so sites coming down the pike, you’d probably use most of those hours on social media. But every now and then there’s a… Continue reading
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Profiles in Tea: Jennifer Petersen, The Cuppa Countess
I’ve known Jennifer Petersen for many years, and it seems like every time I talk to her she’s involved in some exciting new project. If you ask Jennifer what she does, she’ll tell you simply “I network. I love meeting people and listening to their stories.” Recently I asked Jennifer to tell me her story.… Continue reading
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Tea and the Smallholders
While looking into tea growing and production in Africa, I kept coming across the term “smallholder.” To folks here in the U.S. who aren’t totally immersed in the process of growing tea, this term might be a bit puzzling. Never fear, for the answer is right here. Hee! Just as in farming here in the… 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 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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Arcane Tea Terms: Hyson & Singlo
In my first go-round with this article I noted that, with the bewildering mélange of tea varieties and a myriad of other confusing terms, a tea dictionary might be a handy item to have on hand. Though I wasn’t aware that such a thing existed, my esteemed editor pointed out that tea authority James Norwood… Continue reading
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Movin’ on … TeaGuide Tea Room Directory Closes
It was a little over sixteen years ago when I first discovered tea on the Internet. In those nascent times people met online via newsgroups, with its tons of topics about everything under the sun. From a tea newsgroup I found the Teatime listserv, originally created by a tea chemist for tea professionals but later… Continue reading
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