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The Mystery (Books) of Tea
Tea is a fairly straightforward subject, one that’s devoid, for the most part, of any sort of mystery and intrigue. Right? Well, not so fast. If you’d like to see how the topic of tea can form the basis for a tale of mystery – or for a whole bunch of them, for that matter… Continue reading
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My Tea Pantry Has Its Own Zip Code
As tea drinkers try more teas, they get more favorites, and their tea pantry grows. Sometimes, that tea pantry can get, well, a tad overly large, to the point of taking over your house. Decades ago there was a joke about the Hearst mansion being large enough to have its own zip code. Lately, it… Continue reading
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Who Grows Your Tea?
Until relatively recently eating food that had been grown locally was the only game in town for most of the world’s peoples. With the advent of modern transportation methods these practices fell by the wayside for many of us but have seen something of a resurgence in recent years with the so-called locavore movement. All… Continue reading
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All the Tea Books on China
It should come as no surprise to anyone that there are a number of excellent books about the role tea has played in China. After all, China is generally accepted as the birthplace of tea drinking and culture and is still one of the top producers of tea worldwide, not to mention the point of… Continue reading
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The Mysterious Errant “S”
It started out as a simple perplexity. Instead of the printer ink I ordered from an online store, I received a postcard from UPS telling me that they could not find my address. This brought up all manner of questions: UPS delivers to my home all the time. Now they can’t find me? My address… Continue reading
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Who Drinks the Most Tea?
So who does drink the most tea? There are probably many tea lovers out there who think that the trophy for this singular achievement should go on their mantle, but in this case we’re actually looking at rates of tea consumption by country. If you were going to guess, just right off of the top… Continue reading
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Tracing Tea
The tea we’re drinking right now will typically have made its way a great distance in a relatively short period of time. Of course, this was not always the case. In earlier days tea had to come to the rest of the world from China – and later India – by one of two routes.… Continue reading
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Online Tea Shopping, A Primer
Tea stores have hit the Internet, with online tea shopping being a big growth area. More and more people are turning to the virtually infinite array of teas available on Websites. They’re seeking to “plump out” their tea pantries way beyond the basic Orange Pekoe Black available at the local grocery store. Yippee, right? Well,… Continue reading
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Sensing Tea
There are any number of reasons why people drink tea. For some it might be the burst of energy they get from the caffeine. For others it’s the calming effect (yes, paradoxically, tea can pep us up and relax us) that the theanine in tea provides. In the dead of winter we might turn to… Continue reading
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Stocking Up Your Teatime Picnic Basket
We tea drinkers love our picnics as much as anyone else. We just stock up our picnic baskets a little differently. It’s not a big difference, but just a bit of “skewing.” An odd item here, a bit of unusual taste there. You can do it, too. Take potato chips, corn chips, and tortilla chips… Continue reading
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