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  • Tea Elegance on a Budget, Part Two

    What a wonderful feeling to face the day with a hot cup of tea warming your hands.  You are sure to cherish the memories of friends, food and tea all wrapped up in an elegant party.  You have done your prep work and today, the day of the event, you know you can remain calm… Continue reading

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  • Tea Room Charm Is Not Dead

    All the fuss about trying to attract men to tea rooms and to tea in general has caused some to think that the charm of the tea room is gone. As if men, in order to feel at home in a tea room, need it to be like a woodworkers shop or the “man caves”… Continue reading

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  • Tea and the Tea Trade, circa 1850

    An American merchant who spent much of his life living in China, Gideon Nye wrote a number of books on various aspects of Chinese studies, many of which are available in your favorite free digital archive. For purposes of this article, the most noteworthy of these tomes was the 1850 volume (the third edition) he… Continue reading

  • Teas of the World: “Tippy” Teas

    Tippy is a term that describes a tea which has many golden tips (the newly budding leaf). It usually designates a higher quality of tea, especially as part of the Orange Pekoe grading system. For example, there is TGFOP (Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe) which represents some of the most precious tea in the world.… Continue reading

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  • Korean Ginger “Tea” (Tisane)

    Featured as one of the five herbal infusions that I would like to explore more, Korean Ginger “Tea” is a deliciously sweet, invigorating ginger brew that I often feel I can’t get enough of. As the quote marks in the title (and its inclusion in my previous article) indicate, it is technically a herbal infusion… Continue reading

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  • Time to Temper That Tea Temper

    We usually think of tea as such an invigorating yet calming and soothing beverage. Just the act of steeping a potful can give you time to relax, unwind, and cool off that temper. So why do I see so many displays of bad temper among tea drinkers and tea vendors alike? Several possibilities come to… Continue reading

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  • On the Downsides of Free Tea

    One of the things you might find, after you’ve been operating a tea blog for eight years or so, is that you’ll probably be sent lots of free stuff. I sure have been. One of my regrets about operating such a site is that I didn’t keep track of this impressive outpouring from the beginning,… Continue reading

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  • The Confusion of “Purple Tea”

    The whole thing about “purple tea” seems to be marketing jargon, almost like calling some lightly oxidized teas “yellow teas” instead of “oolongs” or even “pouchongs.” But is it really just hype to gain the interest of tea drinkers who seem to constantly crave something new on the tea horizon? Or is this tea different… Continue reading

  • Thoughts on the Term “Matcha”

    I don’t claim to be an expert on tea. I’ve learned a few things in the years I’ve been writing about it, but just enough to make me realize how much more there is to learn. From the time I learned of matcha, I was under the impression that it was a powdered green tea… Continue reading

  • Tea Doughnuts

    The warm embrace of your tea creates visions of cakes, scones and pastries dancing through your mind. Whether you’re a Queen or simply your average tea lover, I am sure on a few occasions you have indulged in this wonderful marriage of food and drink. Putting tea in your food will help to enunciate the… Continue reading

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