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  • Reducing Stroke Risk With Tea?

    I frequently grumble about the exaggerations that various parties make for the health-giving properties of tea. But I don’t necessarily deny that there might be something to this “tea is healthy” notion, and I’ve written my fair share of articles on the topic. I thought for sure I’d covered the potentially beneficial relationship between tea… Continue reading

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  • Industrial Strength Tea

    While tea is generally thought to provide a more easygoing boost than coffee or beverages such as energy drinks, the fact remains that many people who consume it do so because it contains caffeine. For most tea drinkers, tea prepared more or less in the standard fashion is likely good enough for such purposes. While… Continue reading

  • Tea: My Little Ambassador in a Cup

    by Guest Blogger Christy Potter [Editor’s note: Christy’s first and sadly only contribution to our blog — we wish her the best.] I was raised to be many things: a creative thinker, a strong woman, and a coffee drinker. Black, specifically, brewed in the early morning and traded for decaf in the afternoon. When I… Continue reading

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  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Tea-mas!

    [Editor’s note: I am happy to welcome several guest bloggers here to give us their perspectives on tea!] by Guest Blogger Sarah Rosalind Roberts It’s beginning to look a lot like Tea-mas, everywhere you go!  This is my favorite time of year. Yes it might be cold, and yes it gets dark early too, but I find… Continue reading

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  • 5 Teas to Get You Through December

    Tree trimming, present buying and wrapping, greeting card addressing and signing and mailing… these are just a few of the many things we’re all busy with in December. We have to make time for tea through it all. And an herbal or two. Here are five choices (one or two may surprise you) to help… Continue reading

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  • 3 Perfect Teas for Your Thanksgiving Feast

    Last year I listed teas for your Thanksgiving holiday tea time and the year before that I wrote about starting your Thanksgiving plans with tea. So you’re probably wondering what three teas did I miss or are there new teas out there? Read on to find out! The key to serving teas with your Thanksgiving… Continue reading

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  • Tea Kettle Philosophy — Sibling Rivalry

    The kettle is on (a recent survey showed that about 30% of regular tea drinkers use a kettle on the stove to heat water), the teapot is prepped, and my mind has some time once again to drift into reverie, tending toward the philosophic variety. The idea of sibling rivalry comes to mind, especially with… Continue reading

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  • Tea and the Old-Time Gas Station

    Businesses doing things with care, giving attention to the tasks and to their customers — it all seems to have passed away. Everything is rush-rush, self-serve (like those annoying automated check-out lanes in stores), and somewhat homogenized customer service wise. That can include service at the tea shops. What brought all this to mind was… Continue reading

  • Even More Strange Research About Tea

    If you’ve ever doubted that there’s a great deal of offbeat research going on at any given moment, then consider that there’s at least one magazine dedicated to writing about it. That’s the Annals of Improbable Research, which is published by the same organization that sponsors The Ig Nobel Prizes, which “are intended to celebrate… Continue reading

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  • Tea Revives the World

    On top of all of the injuries the British had to endure during World War II there was also the insult of having their tea supplies disrupted. Which may sound minor when you stack it up against being bombed and all that sort of thing, and it probably is. But when one of the things… Continue reading

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