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Tea Merchant, Distinguish Thyself
When I came up with the idea for this article it was based on the following question: “Can tea sellers really succeed by offering the same bland, slapdash selection of tea?” It’s a valid question, but it seemed that I’d phrased it a bit harshly and I considered toning it down for the article. Which… Continue reading
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Tea — India’s National Drink?
It seems like a natural assumption that people who live in countries that grow a lot of tea drink more of it than those in other countries. But it’s not always true. The Chinese, who grow more tea than any other nation, are ranked 33rd on the list of tea consumption on a per capita… Continue reading
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Tempest in a Teapot: Tea & Politics & Health
According to one educated guess from a fairly reliable source there may be as many as almost two million new web addresses registered every year. While web sites come and web sites go, every now and then you run across a golden oldie that probably should have fallen by the wayside by now. Take Tempest… Continue reading
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Tea Appreciation Classes with a KISS
In my former life as an IT trainer, I remember the first few days of training to become a certified Microsoft Applications trainer. Every class started with KISS: Keep It Simple Stupid. The premise behind the acronym is when delivering a training course to ensure that you speak in layman’s terms: speak in a language that… Continue reading
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Tea People: David Lee Hoffman
Most people who know the name David Lee Hoffman probably know that he was the subject of a documentary film called All in This Tea. The movie premiered in 2007, and I caught up with it a few years later, when I reviewed it here at The English Tea Store Blog. Based solely on his… Continue reading
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“Tea: a Text Book of Tea Planting and Manufacture” by David Crole
Nowadays India takes a back seat in tea production to the nation where the whole tea thing got its start – China. But India can take solace in knowing that the Assam region, in the northeast area of the country, is the single largest growing region in the whole world. The British started growing tea… Continue reading
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Clipper Ships, the Cutty Sark & Tea
Once upon a time the concept of overnight delivery to far-flung locations, rather than being a notion that most people take for granted, was something closer to a flight of fantasy like walking on the moon or sending vessels to other planets. In a time when most cargo being shipped long distances had to travel… Continue reading
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How Many Different Teas Can You Name?
With hundreds of teas available out there, both straight (nothing but tea of a particular type), blended (various teas mixed together), and flavored (non-tea “stuff” added to the tea), it’s hard to remember them all. As an exercise of your memory, see how many different teas you can name before reading on. It’s okay. I’ll… Continue reading
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What Is “Grand Cru” Tea?
Tea terms are popping up all over. Every so often the term grand cru (pronounced “grahn croo”) pops up in relation to a particularly fine tea. But what is grand crutea? The term actually comes from the wine industry. Words are like that. They slide around from one area of knowledge to another, being applied… Continue reading
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Toasted Leaves: An Essay on the Origin of Tea
One of the more pervasive legends about tea is that it was supposedly discovered in 2784 B.C. (according to the more detailed accounts) by a Chinese emperor (referred to as Chen Nung in some accounts) who was apparently keen to boil water for sanitary reasons. One day, as the story goes, the emperor was boiling… Continue reading
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