Tea

The Hobby of Tea

by Adam Yusko
All around the world people drink tea, and a lot of it, second only to water. For the majority of people, tea is simply an occasional beverage or a casual afternoon or a gentle wake up. However, for some, tea is so much more. Sadly, those people are usually in the minority, [...]

Tea Rooms, Tea Courts & Tea Dances

In the late 1800s the best hotels in the U.S. and the U.K. began to host tea rooms and tea courts. The tea service served in the late afternoon gave the genteel Victorians a place to meet for a sip of tea and conversation. Many of these tea courts became the epitome of elegance [...]

A Stomach for Tea

by Adam Yusko
When it comes to tea, some people are gifted with extraordinary stomachs. If you can wake up and have a cup, or four, of your favorite black tea and then eat breakfast, you may be such a person. However, if you’re like me, even the thought of tea before food causes your [...]

Tea Timer

If you love your tea, then you know exactly how long you want it steep. You know the brand and flavor of tea that you want to drink, and you know how hot you want your water to be for steeping. Of course, you could always use your watch to time your tea, or [...]

Tea Length Dress

The tea length dress is a formal dress that is neither short nor long. While the style of the top may vary, the length of the dress comes between the bottom of the knee and the calf. This dress is appropriate for tea or garden parties as well as weddings.

While a tea length dress [...]

Tea Tasting Sets

Can you imagine how great it would be to drink tea and get paid for it? Well, that is exactly what a professional tea taster does. Employed to determine the quality of tea, a professional taster can tell exactly where a tea was grown and its quality simply by tasting it. To do his [...]

Tasting Tea

by Adam Yusko
Whether we want to or not, every time we sit down with a cup of tea we compare it to every other tea we’ve ever tried, or at least the memorable ones. But our perceptions are flawed by a number of events, and sometimes I think people that write reviews often forget that [...]

History of Tea

by Christie Smith
Some people think tea came about by chance. Perhaps you know the story, the Chinese Emperor Shen Nung with a deep concern over the health of his subjects orders all water to be boiled before being consumed (quite brilliant if you ask me, when you think this was centuries before knowledge of bacteria [...]

Tea Jelly

Tea jelly is exactly what it sounds like. It’s jelly that is made out of tea. Made simply from tea soup, acids and pectin or gelatin, tea jelly is known for the retention of a tea’s special flavor. The next time that you’re brewing your favorite tea, consider making it into a tasty [...]

Tea Rituals

Tea with its antioxidants and immune boosting properties is not only nutritionally regenerative, but its external properties are restorative as well. One of the only Far Eastern traditions to find a real home in Western civilization, tea rituals are shared world wide.

Tea, and the rituals surrounding it, bridges the gap between many different peoples around [...]

Types of Tea