Tea – Brands
Barry’s, Bewley’s, Devonshire Tea, Harney & Sons, PG Tips, Taylors of Harrogate, Typhoo, Williamson, etc.
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Teas from Africa: Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Rwanda
As shown in my previous article about African teas, the countries of Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Rwanda are sizable producers of tea on the continent of Africa, with smallholders playing a key role. In Tanzania (the 4th largest tea producer in Africa), on the east coast, tea is grown in Usambara in the Masai Steppe in… Continue reading
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Blue Mooning Over Blue Q Tea
Remember the song “Blue Moon”? The song was about a lonely guy wanting his love to appear, then she appears, then his is happy. Well, that’s why tea lovers can go blue mooning over Blue Q tea. Flavors to yearn for, now they’re here! Originally concocted by company co-owners and brothers Mitch and Seth Nash… Continue reading
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Resurrecting Classic Teas
As someone who spends a fair amount of time studying and writing about the history of tea I can’t help wondering occasionally about some of the teas people drank in days gone by. Wondering specifically, that is, what those teas tasted like. Of course, unless I manage to lay my hands on a time machine,… Continue reading
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Yorkshire Tea from Taylors of Harrogate
At just about a century and a quarter, British tea company Taylors of Harrogate could be considered a relative youngster, especially when you consider that there are British tea merchants who have been doing their thing for more than 300 years. Things got underway for Taylors of Harrogate in 1886, when brothers Charles and Llewellyn… Continue reading
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Tea Pioneers: Horniman’s Tea
Tea companies come and tea companies go, though it’s worth noting that there are several such firms that measure their age in centuries rather than merely in years. If you’d been drinking tea in the nineteenth century, chances are you’d have been aware of Horniman’s Tea. Though they only got started in the early nineteenth… Continue reading
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The Diaspora of Tea
Although all tea (Camellia Sinensis) originates in the Eastern part of the world, as in so many other aspects of modern life, there exists a complex network of tea exportation, adaption, and dissemination—a widespread and multi-layered diaspora of tea. If you are wondering what exactly I mean by “diaspora of tea”, think of the geographical… Continue reading
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Elephants, Lifeboats, and Williamson Tea
When it comes to tea, a company that’s just under a century and a half old is a relative youngster when stacked up against the likes of certain more senior concerns. Take Twinings, for instance. They’ve been doing their thing for 300 years, which is a pretty impressive figure by anyone’s reckoning. But of course… Continue reading
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Collectible Tea Cards
If you’re like me then your knowledge of collectible cards begins and ends with baseball cards and I have to confess that I’m not even all that knowledgeable about them. Baseball cards first came into being in the years just after the Civil War and were followed in subsequent decades by popular cards from cigarette… Continue reading
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