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  • Riding the Tea Price Rollercoaster

    Prices go up. Prices go down. It’s true of clothing, an ounce of gold, food, gas, and — the most important thing of all — tea! It can be quite a ride, with your budget straining or relaxing as the direction changes. When it comes to tea, you can beat the move ups with some… Continue reading

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  • Some of the Coolest Tea Names

    Just as there are some teas out there with downright strange names, partly because of language differences and partly as a way to compete in a crowded marketplace, for the same reasons there are some really cool tea names. Nothing seems to point out cultural differences like food names. We want our foods and beverages… Continue reading

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  • Some of the Strangest Tea Names

    How do you compete in a crowded marketplace? One way some independent tea vendors employ is putting — uh, well, let’s call them “memorable” names on their teas. This is especially true when they come up with their own blends. That these names are memorable is a certainty. Whether they help you, the customer, make… Continue reading

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  • Tea, Meet Beer

    With the rising interest in specialty and artisanal foods and beverages in recent years have come a number of the latter that have sought to merge tea in one way or another with something that has a little more of a punch. As noted in an earlier article on this blog, these include various formulations… Continue reading

  • Tea vs. Colas

    Considering that one of the main colas on the market, Coca-Cola, is having an anniversary this month, it seems fitting to take a look at how tea and colas compare. The official date for the invention of Coca-Cola was March 29, 1886, making it a much newer beverage in mankind’s thirst-quenching arsenal compared to tea.… Continue reading

  • Tea, Meet Coffee

    Tea is tea and coffee is coffee and never the twain shall meet. Or shall they? Well, if the truth must be told sometimes they come pretty close. While some tea drinkers wouldn’t touch coffee with a ten-foot stirring stick and there are coffee drinkers who feel the same way about tea, there are also… Continue reading

  • Tea and the Lady with the Fly

    What’s the connection between tea and the lady with the fly? Well, first of all, the former is a beverage that has been around for millennia, and the latter two are characters in a silly albeit entertaining little poem. For those of you not familiar with the poem, it starts out with a poor old… Continue reading

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  • The Great Tea and Salt Chocolate Experiment

    During an online chat with some fellow tea lovers, one of them (Janis of TeaGuide.net) mentioned dark chocolate made with sea salt and was wondering what tea would go well with it. Several possibilities were mentioned, but no conclusive recommendations were presented. Ever curious and willing to experiment, when the chat was over I alerted… Continue reading

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  • Tea Around the World — Tanzania

    Tanzania is one of the largest producers of tea in Africa after Kenya, Malawi and Uganda, producing around 1% of the worlds tea. Tea plants were originally introduced to the country by German settlers in 1902 and commercial tea production started in Tanzania in 1926 and took off after the end of world war two.… Continue reading

  • Tea Around the World

    It’s not like you needed any more reasons to drink tea, right? But if you did, you might want to consider a recent report in the New York Daily News that noted, Coffee Prices Expected To Soar Thanks To Demand, World Harvest. As the story goes, rising demand and lousy harvests in Colombia, Brazil and… Continue reading

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