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Profiles in Tea: Queen Marie of Romania
The story of how a British princess brought tea to Romania begins in 1874 when Queen Victoria’s son Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, married the daughter of Russia’s Tsar Alexander. The duke and duchess’ eldest daughter, Marie, was born a year later. A bright, free-spirited girl, Marie was blessed with exceptional beauty and was gifted with… Continue reading
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Ian Bersten Proposes Tea, the 21st Century, and Beyond — Part 3
Part 1 talked about Bersten’s book to bring us tea drinkers into a more modern approach. Part 2 let you know who this dedicated tea inventor was. Now, we need to take a quick look at the tea company he founded in 2008. About Bersten’s Company Their site is Tea-cha.com (“cha” means tea, so it’s… Continue reading
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Ian Bersten Proposes Tea, the 21st Century, and Beyond — Part 2
Part 1 was about a short e-book by Ian Bersten that was written with the intent of lifting tea drinking up into the marvels of the 21st Century. But who is Ian Bersten? Good question, and I have an answer for you. About the Author Bersten lives in Sydney, Australia, is a graduate of the… Continue reading
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“The Book of Tea” by Kakuzo Okakura
As I’ve noted before, on more than a few occasions, the Internet and the trend toward digitizing old books has opened a whole new world of access to tea books from days gone by. But to be perfectly honest, with their somewhat dry style and specialized subject matter many of these books have languished in… Continue reading
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Ian Bersten Proposes Tea, the 21st Century, and Beyond — Part 1
How do you improve on tea steeping? Simple. Bring it into the 21st century. At least, that’s what Ian Bersten proposes in his latest book Tea for the 21st Century. For those of us raised with porcelain teapots and bagged tea that we steeped in a mug of hot water, Bersten’s proposal can seem radical… Continue reading
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“The Art and Alchemy of Chinese Tea” by Daniel Reid
As coincidence would have it I came to the writings of Daniel Reid quite a while before I took up tea drinking. At his Web site, Reid describes himself as a “bestselling author and a leading expert on natural health and healing practices, chinese medicine and philosophy” and an author of “numerous books and magazine… Continue reading
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Reading Reade’s “Tea and Tea Drinking”
If you haven’t noticed from reading the frequent posts in these pages, one of my favorite tea-related topics to write about is tea books of yesteryear. It’s a topic that wouldn’t have been nearly so easy to write about a decade or more ago when older, more obscure books were harder to access. Nowadays, with… Continue reading
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Tea Bags Revisited
The teabag. You may love it or loathe it, but regardless of how you feel about it it’s probably with us until the universe goes dark. This tiny gizmo is said to have been invented a little over a century ago by a New York-based tea merchant whose customers decided to try steeping the silk… Continue reading
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Taking Photos of Your Tea Experiences
Sharing photos of the teas you are drinking at any particular time online on your blog or on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook is becoming a rather common occurrence. The big question on your mind is probably: Why don’t my photos of tea ever look as perfect as those on tea vendor websites?… Continue reading
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“Tsiology; A Discourse on Tea” by a tea dealer
If you’re reading this article, you probably noted the title and may have been wondering, as I did, what tsiology is and what it has to do with tea. Fair enough, but I can’t offer much in the way of enlightenment on that count. As far as I can tell, it’s a term that the… Continue reading
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