Black Tea

Darjeeling Tea

Anyone who loves tea has undoubtedly enjoyed a good cup of Darjeeling. Grown in the Darjeeling region of India, this tea is probably one of the most popular black teas in the world. Actually, this tea is so popular that the Darjeeling region of India now enjoys a booming tourist trade. Every year [...]

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 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 [...]

Tea Cocktails

by Stephanie Hanson
With tight budgets, more and more people are turning to nights in instead of out. So, for your next girls’ night in, have an evening tea. This is not your pinkies-out afternoon tea, and tea companies are catching on.

Create a fun lounge time atmosphere by picking fun music and having guests dress [...]

Tea Aromas

Popular throughout the world, black tea has one of the most complex aromas of anything we eat or drink. Black tea is formed by oxidizing the tea leaves and letting their essential oils and enzymes come alive. Black tea may have many aromas including, fruity or flowery.

Green tea by comparison has a more delicate and [...]

The Many Faces of Tea

by Stephanie Hanson
For such a simple leaf, the tea plant has undergone amazing transformations in the cups of its drinkers over the centuries. There are as many ways to drink tea as there are leaves on camellia sinensis.

The Chinese people today drink tea as a simple infusion. But there was a time that so many [...]

Tea and Stress

White tea, green tea and oolong tea are gaining in popularity in the western world, but perhaps you may want to rethink your plain old cup of black tea before jumping on the new tea bandwagon. As it turns out, black tea may actually be best at promoting relaxation and fighting stress.

Researchers set out to [...]

The Taste of Tea

The taste of tea is universal. Enjoyed by countries worldwide, there are regional preferences, but a sip of freshly brewed tea is a sip of freshly brewed tea, no matter where you are. Even the vocabulary used to describe tea is musical. Similar to wine, tea is described by its flavor, including sweet, [...]

English High Tea

by Adam Yusko
English High tea has slowly spread throughout the entire world. Many people are very demanding when it comes to how their tea is served and conducted. But suppose you wish to have a tea party, or host a high tea, here are some essentials you should be sure to have.

The food which should [...]

Bevy of Teapots

by A.C. Cargill
Every self-respecting tea drinker knows the essentials of their tea arsenal. One of the most important is having a bevy of teapots on hand.

Yes, I said “bevy.” For each one is a beauty, as any tea implements are to one living the “tea life” where tea is more than just a beverage.
You probably [...]

Types of Tea