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Tea Veterans — James Norwood Pratt
Time to visit with another person who has been in the “tea trenches” for many years. Another dedicatee to the Camellia Sinensis plant (the tea bush) and to processing it for a variety of tastes. Someone who contributes daily to the enjoyment of tea by people the world over. Another unsung hero, a veteran in… Continue reading
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Royal-tea
I realise I am a little biased, but for me there is more to the joy of tea than just drinking it. I like the whole process of boiling, brewing and pouring. I think there is something very relaxing in the magic of turning dry, dead looking leaves into the warming, invigorating drink that we… Continue reading
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Being a Tea Geek
Tea geeks, stand up and be proud. There is a lot to know about tea, and those of you who have achieved geek status must surely have spent a lot of time and effort scaling those heights of tea factdom. So, what is a geek? One dictionary defines a geek as one of these: A… Continue reading
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Tea Reviewers Revisited
There are tea review sites and then there are tea review sites. For a listing of some of the more noteworthy ones, take a look at this previous article, here at The English Tea Store Blog. I also took a more in-depth look at a couple of the largest tea review sites out there. They… Continue reading
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The Poetry of Tea
I can’t honestly say that I’ve never written a poem about tea and I have a feeling that I probably never will. But I can see how it could happen. Every once in a while a tea comes along that’s sufficiently amazing that it could conceivably inspire a few lines of verse. And for that… Continue reading
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Relax and Perk Up with Tea
Most of us are familiar with the notion of using a type of food or a beverage to help stimulate us. In the majority of cases caffeine or something like it is involved, though perhaps not always. A little less common is the idea of using food or beverages to help us calm down. But… Continue reading
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Revolutionising the Way I Drink Tea
Some people are just practical. I know this, I have friends who are. They always have tissues on them, they remember the safe places where they’ve put important document and they tend to put the lids back on things before they knock them over. I am not one of these people. So when I come… Continue reading
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Celebrity Tea Bags, Tea Bag Art & Fragrances
The tea gadgeteers never rest, or so it would seem, and the tea gadgets and gimmicks just keep on coming. Here are a few of the most recent innovations and strange uses for tea and tea paraphernalia that have come down the pike lately. If you really, really like the smell of tea and the… Continue reading
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Tea Books: The Latest Crop
Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea. – T.S. Eliot – Where’s the link between tea and great literature? Glad you asked. A little while back the New Yorker examined those links… Continue reading
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Famous “Tea” Expressions
Expressions about tea abound. Not surprising. Tea is becoming of more interest, and we humans tend to fold our interests into our vocabulary, sort of like folding chocolate chips into cookie dough. They make the cookies sweeter, and the expressions make our daily speech more interesting. Probably the first expression that comes to your mind… Continue reading
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