William I. Lengeman III
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Everything I Didn’t Know About Korean Tea
Pull up a chair while I tell you everything I know about Korean tea. Although you probably wouldn’t have time to sit down. As for the title of this article, I’m not going to actually attempt to tell you everything I don’t know about Korean tea, because that would be a lot. So I’ll confine… Continue reading
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Stretching Your Tea
The best thing about a truly great tea is drinking it. That should almost go without saying, even though I just did. One of the worst things about a truly great tea is that it doesn’t last forever. Since most of the tea I drink nowadays consists of samples provided by tea merchants I’ve pretty… Continue reading
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A Chemical Study of the Tea Industry in South Carolina
When you think of the great tea-producing regions of the world, South Carolina is probably one of the first that springs to mind. Okay, maybe not. If the truth be told, in spite of all of its many achievements, the United States has never been a player when it comes to tea production. Or tea… Continue reading
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Tea Review: English Tea Store Borengajuli Estate Assam
As I noted recently in a tea review at my own site, the final few months of 2012 were quite a bonanza to a black tea-loving fellow such as yours truly. A pile of samples came flooding in (okay, just a slight exaggeration), and some of them were quite good, thank you very much. Among… Continue reading
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Some Quirky Teahouses
Oh, the teahouse. According to one informed source, the number of tea houses here in these good old United States alone is somewhere around three thousand, a huge jump from a modest number about a decade and a half ago. Worldwide, there’s no telling how many tea houses there but “a whole bunch” or “more… Continue reading
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Tea – The Disreputable Drink?
Over the centuries tea has been many things to many people. Early on, in Asia, it was mostly the drink of emperors and other nobility. When it first came to Europe it was so expensive, due in large part to relatively scarce supplies, that no one but the rich and powerful could afford it. Even… Continue reading
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Show Me the Black Tea
How do I judge thee, oh tea merchant? Let me count the ways. Oh, never mind. There are actually a few ways that I judge your tea Web site, but one of the first and foremost is by your selection of black tea. More about that in a moment. If you’ve read any of the… Continue reading
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The Shape of the Leaf
You can’t judge a book by the cover – or so the saying goes. Whether or not you can judge a variety of tea by its appearance is a question for someone with more expertise than yours truly. But I can say, without any fear of contradiction, that tea leaves do come in a very… Continue reading
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A Brief History of the Tea Chest
What do you get for the person who has everything? According to one theory you could always get them something to put it in. Although if they truly have everything, that would presumably include a sufficient amount of storage containers – but I digress. All of which is a somewhat roundabout way to emphasize the… Continue reading
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What is High Mountain Oolong?
For many years now I’ve seen the term “high mountain oolong” being bandied about, but I never really gave it much thought. Until recently, when I started to wonder exactly what that meant. Obviously, since I’m not completely dense (that’s my story and I’m sticking with it), I can pretty much deduce, based on the… Continue reading
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