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You Know You’ve Stored Your Teas Too Long When…
We all know that storing your teas is a task to be done with care. The nemeses of tea (air, light, moisture, odors, etc.) are constantly on the attack, and so our guard must never be down. Sometimes, though, our best efforts are just not enough. We dig out that tin of Harney and Sons… Continue reading
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Monthly Tea Gadget and Offbeat News Report VIII
Let’s start with the offbeat news this time around. Does it get any more offbeat than breast milk in tea? Hard to say. I’m not sure who Mylene Klass is or what her claim to fame is. But apparently she’s well known enough that the British press is abuzz of her recent revelation that when… Continue reading
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Teas of the World: TTES Teas
Tea in Taiwan is serious business, so much so that they are constantly working on developing new cultivars of Camellia Sinensis (the tea plant) that will yield certain characteristics for both the grower and the imbiber. The results are usually sold with a TTES number on them, for example, “TTES No. 18.” But what is… Continue reading
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On the Adolf Hitler Tea Kettle Controversy
Let me say, right at the outset, that the day (or days) in which the Adolf Hitler Tea Kettle Controversy erupted must have been kind of slow on the news front, to say the least. The whole big frenzy seems to have started sometime in late May. Or as Time magazine reported, the fuss got… Continue reading
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Teapots at the British Museum – Part 2
Following on from Part 1, this instalment uses two other teapots I came across in the British Museum as a starting point to reflect on the journey of tea culture across the world; the history of tea drinking is a diaspora of teapots as much as a diaspora of tea. The teapots pictured below are… Continue reading
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When Did Tea Time Become the Cocktail Hour?
More and more tea times at posh restaurants are featuring champagne and other alcoholic beverages. So much for tearooms being refuges (as they first started out to be) from places serving such drinks. It raises the question of when this transformation started taking place. Once upon a time in Great Britain and other European countries,… Continue reading
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Americans Love Tea – Sez the British Press
We Americans sure love our tea. Or so the British say. Wait. Excuse me? Isn’t that supposed to be the other way around? Aren’t we Yanks supposed to be blabbing on about how much the British love their tea? I think so. To be quite honest, I’ve been guilty of doing just that more than… Continue reading
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Tea Developments, Monthly Report June 2013
June is iced tea month, but there’s been a lot more going on than that in terms of tea developments. Here’s a quick look at some that may not necessarily be new but are still not in the mainstream of tea drinkers’ awareness. 20 Teas Selected as Best for Serving Iced Iced tea can be… Continue reading
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How to Row a Tea Boat – A Quick Guide
A tea boat is a small size “tea table” that is usually no more than around 10cm high and has about the dimensions of a regular serving tray in width and length. It is thereby not really a table in the narrower sense, but in fact is rather put on a (real) table for use.… Continue reading
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