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While China is heralded as the birthplace of the healthy green tea, India has grown to be the largest producer and exporter of tea in the world. As with China, the inhabitants of India also enjoy their “Chai,” which is central to their daily life. There are three tea-growing regions [...] Continue Reading… 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 [...] Continue Reading… Tea is a drink, a ritual and a ceremony that’s been uniting people around the world since the first tea bush was discovered in China about 5,000 years ago. So let’s take a quick trip around the world and see how different cultures enjoy their tea. For many years the [...] Continue Reading… 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 [...] Continue Reading… Commercial tea is harvested from two different tea plants, both in the Camellia family. Camellia sinensis originated in China over 5,000 years ago. Thriving in high altitudes and cool climates, this variety of tea produces small leaves whose essence is floral and refined. From these leaves most [...] Continue Reading… Despite the weakened economy, the daily indulgence of gourmet tea has been holding steady. Gourmet tea selections include a wide variety of exotic flavors and on average cost thirty percent more than regular teas. With gourmet tea sales increasing up to twenty-five percent each year for the last two decades, [...] Continue Reading… 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 [...] Continue Reading… 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 [...] Continue Reading… by Adam Yusko Chinese teas have slowly worked their way into the West, with white tea gaining most of the notoriety. Yet there is another Chinese tea becoming better known by those in the west: yellow tea. However, despite its growing popularity, it typically can only be ordered from [...] Continue Reading… The question is, “Are you really in that big of a hurry that you cannot boil water for a cup of tea?” Developed in the 1930s instant tea did not find a commercial application until the 1950s. Soluble teas are certainly convenient, and there is heated debate about [...] Continue Reading… |
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