Social media and tea don’t really seem to go together sometimes. After all, you can’t taste or smell the tea in the photos posted on this blog, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Google+, Pinterest, etc. However, you can discuss tea. Which is what brought me to the agony of the leaves. The phrase “the agony of the …
Day: June 13, 2012
Tea: the Unsung Wonder Food
There are a lot of “wonder foods” out there, and there seems to be a new one touted each week. I would like to propose adding tea to the list of foods that seem to do anything and everything. But, contrary to what you may think, I am not about to espouse the health benefits …
“Tea in Assam,” by Samuel Baildon
If pressed to choose a favorite type of tea, I wouldn't have a problem. I'd go with any one of a number of single-estate black varieties from Assam, a state in northeastern India. Though it's important to note that much of the tea grown in Assam, the world's single largest growing region, is not necessarily …
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