William I. Lengeman III
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Monthly Tea Gadget and Offbeat News Report IV
While most of these reports seem to focus more on the gadget side of things, I’d like to start off this month with one of the wackier bits of offbeat tea-related news I’ve heard for a while. Consider this headline from a recent edition of The Japan Times – Viagra-green Tea Cocktail Combats Cancer. No,… Continue reading
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Bragger’s Tea
One of the stranger types of tea I’ve written about was poo poo puerh, a curious variety also known as grain moth tea, chong cha or worm tea, among other things. Not to be indelicate about it, but it’s a tea that’s made by feeding grain moths with puerh tea, then harvesting the excrement and… Continue reading
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“Tea Machinery, and Tea Factories – The Book” by Alexander James Wallis-Tayler
Writers of yesteryear were hardly known for being economical when it came to their book titles and Alexander James Wallis-Tayler was no exception. His 1900 work, Tea Machinery, and Tea Factories: A Descriptive Treatise on the Mechanical Appliances Required in the Cultivation of the Tea Plant and the Preparation of Tea for the Market, might… Continue reading
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Umami and Tea
Forget for the moment that it sounds like something from a playground joke (umami’s so fat…). If you’re like me, you probably weren’t aware until relatively recently that umami is one of the five major taste types, along with sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. But it’s nothing new, as a matter of fact, having been… Continue reading
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Hang in There, Spring is Coming
As I write this, the northeastern region of the United States has just finished being assaulted by one of those “storm of the century” type events. It’s called Nemo (did we just start naming winter storms or haven’t I been paying attention?) and it made life rather trying in that part of the world for… Continue reading
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Book Review: The China Tea Book
I’ve run across a few tea books in my time and, while it’s only a rather modest 212 pages in all, Luo Jialin’s The China Tea Book takes the cake when it comes to sheer bulk. I don’t think I’ve ever run across a heftier volume on tea, and it would certainly qualify as coffee… Continue reading
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More About How to Make a Perfect Cup of Tea
So what about this perfect cup of tea anyway? Before delving into a look at a few of the more notable how-to guides that are out there, let’s start by taking a look at the terminology. I know we all have a pretty good idea of what “perfect” means, but let’s take a look at… Continue reading
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$130 Tea Deconstructed
Stop the presses! The word seems to have gotten out not so long ago that a certain well-known French tea retailer was opening a store in New York City and was said to be selling tea for $130 a bag (as one newspaper put it). Gasp! This tidbit made its way to various media outlets,… Continue reading
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5 Things I Wish I’d Known About Tea
One does not spring fully formed into this world knowing everything there is to know about tea. It would be nice, but it doesn’t work that way. In my own case I was more than four decades along before I even started drinking the stuff. Then it was quite a few years before I started… Continue reading
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Recent and Upcoming Tea Books
If I had a copy of every book I’ve written about since taking up this tea writing thing, I’d surely have a bookshelf with several feet of books devoted to the subject. But tea is a whopping big topic, and there are always more books on the horizon. Here are a few of the latest… Continue reading
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