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  • Tea Pricing – What Makes Tea Expensive, Part 1

    Tea pricing is one of the most complex pricing “systems” of all, comparable to that of precious stones: in both cases, only an experienced expert will be able to tell. I discovered a 400g box of loose broken Chinese green tea in a branch of an Asian food store chain in Germany last year, costing… Continue reading

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  • Does Your Tea Site Need A Makeover?

    Back in the 70s I had some pretty fine bell bottoms, if I do say so myself, and some eye-catching silk shirts and a nice pair of platform shoes to round out any ensemble. I know fashions have a way of coming around and I don’t have any of those snappy duds anymore but even… Continue reading

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  • Tea Is Just Tea

    Over the last several years I’ve run across a number of articles that have suggested that tea might be the new coffee. I’m sure I’ll see many more as they seem to crop up rather frequently. Here’s one of the latest examples, a blog post from none other than the Wall Street Journal, titled Where… Continue reading

  • Tea and the Chess Game

    When I started writing about tea, it was with the goal of showing how a cup of tea fit into about any situation in life. And made that situation better. Or at least tolerable. During the process, I also discovered that tea evoked various philosophical musings from me and some rather interesting memories. Like that… Continue reading

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  • Tea Moments — First Stars

    “Twilight” isn’t just a series of novels and a TV show about vampires, werewolves, etc. It’s also not just a type of zone where tiny spaceships land on farmhouse rooftops or little boys can wish anything into existence they want. Twilight is a special time of day. A time for a great tea moment as… Continue reading

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  • Alexander McCall Smith and George Orwell Talk Tea

    One of the many things I’ve discovered in the years I’ve been writing about tea is that the British have strong opinions when it comes to this topic. In 1946, just three years before writing his most famous work (1984), British author George Orwell set forth some of his strong opinions on tea in A… Continue reading

  • 5 Teas to Get You Through April

    No fooling, it’s time to line up another round of tasty teas to get you through the month ahead. Between preparing your tax return to baying at the full moon, it’s going to be a busy month. Let’s see what tea can do for us this time around. 1 In This “April Fool” Month Look… Continue reading

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  • East Frisian Tea Culture

    If you’re like me, you probably don’t know much about East Frisia. No disrespect to the good people who live there but, if it weren’t for tea, I probably wouldn’t know anything either. Even as I began to write this article, I realized that my knowledge of the region was hazy, to say the least.… Continue reading

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  • Wild Tea – When Tea Grows on a Tree

    From pictures in books, TV, and online, we are used to pictures of wide and beautifully styled tea gardens, with tea growing in bushes, usually no more than half a meter high, often less, with thin and tender trunks and branches, but in fact this is only half the story. The species tea, Camellia Sinensis,… Continue reading

  • Germany, Tea, and the Radio

    I really enjoy listening to radio programmes, as old-fashioned as that may sound, in part because they tend to provide unusual commentary that don’t find their way into other media. I recently enjoyed a radio broadcast even more than I usually do when it unexpectedly veered in the world of tea. This episode of ‘From… Continue reading

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