Tea lovers could be facing severe disappointment due to a new ban on exports of Darjeeling tea. The ban is the idea of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), a political party who's aim is to create a separate state from the region of India which includes Darjeeling. The GJM have proposed the ban as part …
Day: March 15, 2011
Revolutionising the Way I Drink Tea
Some people are just practical. I know this, I have friends who are. They always have tissues on them, they remember the safe places where they've put important document and they tend to put the lids back on things before they knock them over. I am not one of these people. So when I come …
Butterflies and Tea
Recently, I tried a tea named Lavender Butterfly Tea. The name gave me cause for pause. Butterflies? In tea? Lavender is one thing, but I draw the line at bugs. And, for that matter, other critters such as monkeys and pandas. Yes, butterflies are free, so they don’t add to the cost of the ingredients …
Spring Equinox Means Time for Tea
Losing an hour of precious tea drinking time by setting your clocks forward for Daylight Savings Time (March 13th this year) is a pretty raw deal. The good news is that Spring Equinox (March 20th this year) makes up for it (at least a little bit). That’s when the hours of daylight and darkness are …
If St. Patrick Had Had These Teas…
First, my apologies for the title and the awkward English (“had had”), but it was the best way to express how tea could have changed history in Ireland. Not to mention our modern day celebrations of St. Patrick’s Day here in the U.S. Patrick (Patricius) was a Romanized Gaul living in what is now England. …
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