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  • Americans Love Tea – Sez the British Press

    We Americans sure love our tea. Or so the British say. Wait. Excuse me? Isn’t that supposed to be the other way around? Aren’t we Yanks supposed to be blabbing on about how much the British love their tea? I think so. To be quite honest, I’ve been guilty of doing just that more than… Continue reading

  • Tea vs. Coffee in Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka may not be a massive tea-growing region, at least not on the same order as China, India or Africa, but they actually rank rather high on the list, after those aforementioned areas. Like its neighbor immediately to the West – India – the island is best known for its black tea. It is… Continue reading

  • Tea, Canadian Style

    As far as I can tell, when it comes to matters of tea, our good neighbors to the north are much like us here in the United States. In the overall scheme of things we Yanks don’t really drink all that much tea. Our consumption of just over a pound per person per year ranks… Continue reading

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  • A Few of Our Favorite Tea Associations

    Please pardon me for restating the obvious, but when people share common interests they have a tendency to gather together into groups to explore those interests. Tea people are no exception, mind you, and the same for those tea people that are in the business of producing and/or selling tea. Rather than being a comprehensive… Continue reading

  • Recent and Upcoming Tea Books V

    So what’s the deal with tea cosies? I’m starting to get the impression that they’re a lot more popular than I ever realized. I’ve never owned one and since I don’t prepare tea in a teapot I don’t suppose I ever will. But given the number of books that I’ve run across while writing previous… Continue reading

  • Canada’s First Tea Farm?

    In the years that I’ve been writing about tea, I’ve commented a number of times about the relative scarcity of tea growers in the United States. We’re not really renowned for drinking tea here or growing it, although there is one producer of note – South Carolina’s Charleston Tea Plantation – and a number of… Continue reading

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  • Is Ceylon Tea an Aphrodisiac?

    I’ve heard my share of extravagant claims for tea over the course of the years. Most of the time I just move on (nothing to see here). Once in a while I pause to engage in a bit of contemplative inner ridicule for a few moments, but every now and then I have to stop… Continue reading

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  • Selling Tea: Presentation, Presentation, Presentation

    Have you ever seen a menu with washed out, faded pictures of food that probably wouldn’t look all that good no matter how accomplished the photography was? Did it really make you want to eat at that particular restaurant? I couldn’t agree more. I’ve never been a particularly visual person. Words, text and the like… Continue reading

  • How to Become a Tea Sommelier

    So, what about this whole tea sommelier thing anyway? It’s a relatively new concept and one that we’ve talked about previously in these pages, including this article by our Esteemed Editor. Obviously taking a cue from the more established profession of wine sommelier, tea sommeliers are looking to raise the bar for tea consumption, oftentimes… Continue reading

  • My Rediscovery of Green Tea

    I’m drinking green tea again. Yes, I know there’s probably no need to alert the national news media and so I’m going to hold off on the news conference for now. But bear with me while I explain why this seems worthy of mentioning. I have never made any secret of my fondness for black… Continue reading

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