Green Tea
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Make Mine Matcha
Once upon a time, tea drinkers in the West would not likely have had ready access to a type of Japanese green tea called matcha. Those who did probably did so thanks to their participation in Chanoyu, which is more commonly known as the Japanese tea ceremony. Until relatively recently this was one of the… Continue reading
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The Best of Japanese Green Tea
Japanese green tea — if you wanted to distill that phrase down to its very essence you could just say Japanese tea. For when it comes to tea production and consumption in Japan it’s safe to say that green tea is by far and above the overwhelming favorite. Not that black tea is totally unknown… Continue reading
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Tea and Herbs and Hay Fever — Oh, My!
Tea and herbal infusions can be a major part of your arsenal when the “achoo!” season reigns across the land. We’re talking hay fever, complete with itchy, watery eyes, headaches, and lots of boxes of tissues for all the stuff your body produces while overreacting to the allergen. Hay fever (technically called “rhinitis”) simply put… Continue reading
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Live Long, Drink Tea?
Can tea help you live longer? Well, maybe. Now if that sounds like a cautious statement, well, it’s because it is. If you do a Google search for tea and longevity, for example, you’ll find any number of claims – some of them quite “creative” and a few that stretch the boundaries of belief –… Continue reading
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Review of Chinese Flower by Harney & Sons
Name: Chinese Flower Brand: Harney & Sons Type: Flavored green tea Form: Available in both teabags and loose-leaf Review: This is one of those teas that is both a pleasure to look at as well as to drink. The gorgeous dry leaf is a blend of Chinese green tea and dried flower petals (Harney &… Continue reading
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Iced Tea Roundup — Some Good Teas to Serve Chilled
Not every tea makes an acceptable chilled (iced) tea. When cooled, some teas become bitter or just downright make your teeth hurt with every sip. Other teas cry out loudly for milk and sweetener but don’t taste good chilled, according to my personal experiments. Fear not, though. There are plenty of teas out there that… Continue reading
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Why Your White Tea Tastes Lousy
Not so long ago, in the quest to find the next big thing in tea (a notion which pretty much equates to “the next green tea”) it seems that a lot of media types and tea merchants began to turn their attention to white tea. This makes some sense, to be honest, since white tea,… Continue reading
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Gunpowder Green Tea Varieties
No one can truly say how many varieties of tea there are, at least not with any degree of accuracy. Suffice to say that it’s a very large number – in the hundreds, at least, and perhaps even into the thousands. Even if you discount the other five types (black, oolong, puerh, yellow, white) and… Continue reading
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Review of Caribe by Harney & Sons
Name: Caribe Brand: Harney & Sons Type: Green and black tea blend, flavored Form: Silky tea bags Review: Caribe is, as its name suggests, a tea flavored with the tropics in mind. It is a blend of both green tea, black tea, marigold, and cornflower with strawberry, coconut, guava and hibiscus flavors added. The tea… Continue reading
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Shincha For Spring
In the spring, if we might paraphrase the great poet Alfred Lord Tennyson just a bit, a tea lover’s fancy may turn to thoughts of shincha. Japan is renowned for a number of excellent varieties of green tea and, of these, shincha is considered by many to be one of the best. A Japanese term… Continue reading
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