Beyond Black: Expand Your Tea Horizons

As iced tea season looms on the horizon, visitors to these pages have already run across a few articles that take a look at various facets of this warm weather favorite. Of course, the best part of the iced tea experience is drinking mass quantities of it — particularly when you take into consideration the …

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The Tea Bag

While not all tea drinkers are enamored of tea bags as an alternative to loose leaf tea, there's no question that the tea bag is a popular choice for millions of tea lovers worldwide. By some accounts, which are probably more legendary than factual, tea drinking came about in 2737 B.C. when Chinese emperor Shen …

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England’s Homegrown Tea

The English love tea. Yeah, no kidding. A statement like that ranks right up there on the blatantly obvious scale along with such gems as rain is wet and dogs bark. Though tea got its start in China, the English were probably more instrumental than anyone in spreading it to the rest of the world. …

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