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How Do You Spell Tea?
According to Wikipedia, a style guide “is a set of standards for the writing and design of documents, either for general use or for a specific publication, organization or field.” While there are many such guides in circulation nowadays, some of the best known are probably The Chicago Manual of Style and The Associated Press… Continue reading
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Rock and Roll Tea Shops
Is there anything more rock and roll than tea? Umm. Well, if the truth be told, tea is probably still suffering from something of an image problem. You know the one — elderly women in festive hats gathering in stuffy tea houses to drink so-so tea and eat those little sandwiches with the crusts removed.… Continue reading
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“The Way of Tea” by Aaron Fisher
In the course of several years spent writing about tea at this site, at my own site, and various others, I’ve read and reviewed quite a few tea books and have encountered a lot of other titles in passing. On the whole they seem to fall into a few main categories. There are the broad… Continue reading
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Educate or Cater To — The Role of a Tea Shop
“To educate, or not to educate? That is the question!” Ah, if Shakespeare were alive today! He would tell tea shop owners a thing or two. Selling anything is tough. Selling something like tea can be even tougher, especially to a customer base raised on instant tea, weak tea in a string-and-tag bag, and the… Continue reading
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10 Website No-No’s for Internet Tea Stores
With the move toward shopping online, especially for such things as tea, having a good online presence can be the only thing between you and a customer. Making a really good site that reflects truly who you are and why those customers should buy your products instead of clicking away to another site is absolutely… Continue reading
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Tea People — Steven Smith
The last article I wrote for this site (though publication schedules won’t necessarily reflect it) was a profile of Thomas Twining, the man responsible for creating the company that became Twinings of London. It’s company that’s survived and thrived for more than three hundred years now, a considerable feat given the whopping number of businesses… Continue reading
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Profiles in Tea: Lu Yu
Lu Yu, author of Cha Jing, or The Classic of Tea, is often referred to as the patron saint of tea. He was a colourful character with expertise in many areas – not only tea. Born in 733 CE in Jingling, Fuzhou (now Tianmen City, Hubei Province) about 125 miles southwest of Shanghai, Lu Yu… Continue reading
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“The Chinese Art of Tea” by John Blofeld
Once upon a time, you could safely say that the art of tea and the Chinese art of tea were the same thing, given that the Chinese are credited with being the first people to drink our beloved beverage. But even though tea drinking eventually spread to other countries it’s worth noting that the Chinese… Continue reading
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“A Popular Treatise on Tea” by John Sumner
If you head out to the Internet looking for tea books from yesteryear, you’ll find enough to keep you occupied for a very long time. I’ve written about quite a few such works in these very pages, but to the best of my recall I can’t think of one that was written by an author… Continue reading
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Tea Pioneers of Great Britain
The British were not the first people to drink tea and they were not even the first Europeans to do so. They have never grown tea on their own soil, except in very modest amounts at one or two plantations, nor do they drink the most tea on a per capita basis. And yet when… Continue reading
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