William I. Lengeman III
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Obsolete Jobs: US Tea Examiner
As noted before in these pages, we citizens of the United States put away a fair quantity of iced tea and a little bit of the other stuff, but we don’t quite measure up to the big time tea drinking countries. On a list of top tea drinking nations that I ran across recently, we… Continue reading
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Thoughts on a Chigusa (Tea Storage Jar)
If you’d asked me not so long ago what I knew about ancient Japanese tea jars, I’d pretty much have been stumped. I’ve been studying and writing about tea for more than eight years. But I don’t recall hearing much about these items until I ran across a recent book called The Story of Chigusa:… Continue reading
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$5 Cup of Tea – Meet $6 Cup of Tea
What’s the largest sum of money you’d pay for a cup of tea? My answer is not very much, though I can’t really narrow it down to a precise dollar (or cents) figure. I’ve discoursed on tea economics here many times now and I won’t go into it too deeply except to say that the… Continue reading
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Who Drinks Coffee, Who Drinks Tea?
Of all the nations on Earth, which one drinks the most tea? That would have to be the Irish, of course. Or would it? Well, if the truth be told, the nation that consumes the most tea of them all is…China. Which is fitting enough, I guess. The Chinese are said to put away about… Continue reading
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The History of the Perfect Cup of Tea
I write a few monthly columns for this site, one about tea books and one about tea gadgets and offbeat news. Though it might seem otherwise, I don’t actually write on a monthly basis about perfect tea. But I’ve covered the topic many times already and I’m about to do it one more time. For… Continue reading
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Most Offbeat Tea Recipes
I see a lot of recipes for dishes that incorporate tea in one way or another, so many in fact that I tend to skim over the majority of them. But I had to sit up and take notice recently when a recipe for Tea Mac-n-Cheese appeared in these very pages. Which is a pretty… Continue reading
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Some “Hearty” Teas for Valentine’s Day
Pardon my play on words. Obviously there are various meanings to the words heart and hearty but with Valentine’s Day falling in this month it seemed as good a time as any to look at some hearty teas. Even if Valentine’s Day wasn’t nigh, it’s still winter in the Northern Hemisphere (a relative concept here… Continue reading
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Recent and Upcoming Tea Books 13
There is some debate about how old a child should be before they are introduced to the wonders of tea. But you’re probably safe in introducing them to books about tea at any age, no matter how young. One good choice in this area might be the Emma Lea books, a series of tea-themed children’s… Continue reading
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The Perfect Shade of Tea
When it comes to tea the notion of color plays a role in a number of ways. To start with, there are the main types of tea. Four of these (black, green, white, yellow) are named for colors. There’s also oolong, which is sometimes (but not so often) referred to as blue tea and keep… Continue reading
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Servants Serving Tea – A Guide
With Downton Abbey all the rage these days it seems that there’s been an increase in the amount of tea-related news that has to do with the show in some way or another. Which is probably not surprising given that the show is set in the upper crust of British society in the years before… Continue reading
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