William I. Lengeman III
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19th Century Tea Patents
I’ve been writing about tea gadgets at this fine site for a while now, and not so long ago I began writing a regular monthly feature on the topic – with a side of offbeat tea-related news tossed in for good measure. Yes, I do run across enough tea gadgets in a month’s time to… Continue reading
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Addicted to Tea, Part II
Not so long ago I wrote about the notion of tea addiction. I concluded that while you might not be able to develop an addiction to tea, at least not in the strictest sense of the word, it seems possible that you might become addicted to the caffeine in tea. I hardly consider myself to… Continue reading
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The Levels of Tea Experience
All due respect and perhaps apologies are due to William James, who wrote an influential book just over a century ago, called The Varieties of Religious Experience. You can approach tea from many different directions and there’s hardly one true and proper path. But like most things in life, you typically have to start at… Continue reading
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Recent and Upcoming Tea Books II – The Forgotten
It’s a bit of a misnomer this time around – that title. As I was doing research for the last edition of this column I ran across several books that weren’t in the recent and upcoming category but that I didn’t recall encountering before. So, without any further ado, here are a few of these… Continue reading
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In Search of the First Tea Bag Patent
There is a commonly accepted tale for the origin of the tea bag, one that I’ve written about at this site and elsewhere. I’ve also seen it mentioned countless other times in many other places. I’ll kick off this article by giving a very brief version of the story. Sometime around 1904 or 1907 or… Continue reading
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Tregothnan, Earl Grey (Hot) & More
The United States has never been known as a nation of tea consumers or tea producers, although for a long time now we’ve had our own homegrown tea estate – South Carolina’s Charleston Tea Plantation. Over in the United Kingdom they are known for their immense consumption of tea, but they have never done much… Continue reading
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“Chinese Method of Preparing the Different Sorts of Tea” by Alexis-Marie de Rochon
Have you ever found yourself wishing for an article that was translated from French into English and published in a Scottish magazine on the topic of how the Chinese prepare tea? Well, funny you should mention it. I’ve got just the thing for you. The Scots Magazine got underway in 1739 and it still publishing… Continue reading
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Tea Review — The English Tea Store’s Tarajulie Estate
I haven’t made a thorough study of the matter, but I’d venture to say that if you’re looking for information on the gardens that produce your Indian single-estate tea you’re likely to come up dry in many cases. Take Tarajulie Estate, for instance, who produce the fine Assam tea that’s the subject of this review.… Continue reading
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Might as Well Face It, You’re Addicted to Tea
Are you addicted to tea? Oh, phooey. I have to admit that I find it a bit tiresome the way people toss around the word “addiction” so casually these days, often in situations where it simply doesn’t fit. Yeah, you might like chocolate or baseball or anime a whole lot, but it’s highly unlikely that… Continue reading
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How Much Tea Do You Like in Your Tea?
Until just recently it never would have occurred to me to use anything more or less than the standard measure of leaves to prepare a cup of tea. But of course you can do just that, if you prefer. As I recall reading quite some time back, the measure of 2.25 grams per six ounces… Continue reading
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