William I. Lengeman III
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The Mechanics of Cold Brewing Tea
There are any number of ways to whip up a cup of tea these days, and we’ve commented on several of them in these pages. They range from the tried and true method of heating water with a teakettle (or microwave) and pouring it over a tea bag or loose tea leaves to a high-tech… Continue reading
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Arcane Tea Terms: Hyson & Singlo
In my first go-round with this article I noted that, with the bewildering mélange of tea varieties and a myriad of other confusing terms, a tea dictionary might be a handy item to have on hand. Though I wasn’t aware that such a thing existed, my esteemed editor pointed out that tea authority James Norwood… Continue reading
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“The Cultivation and Manufacture of Tea” by Edward Money
Tea was still a relative newcomer to India in 1878 when Edward Money published the third edition of his book, The Cultivation and Manufacture of Tea. Tea growing in the Assam region had commenced about four decades earlier and about twenty years after that in the Darjeeling region. By this time, the Indian tea was… Continue reading
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Think Pink: Pink Tea
The many types of tea might not cover all of the colors in the rainbow, but they certainly come close. The best known, of course, are green and black. After that come white and oolong. Of course the latter is not a “colored” tea in the strictest sense of the world, but there are those… Continue reading
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More Tea Advertising Icons
One of the earliest advertisements for tea, at least in the western world, may have been the one which appeared in a London newspaper in 1658, “That excellent and by all pysitians approved China drink called by the Chineans Tcha, by other nations Tay, alias Tee, is sold at the Sultaness Head, a Cophee-house in… Continue reading
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Tea Water: To Microwave or Not?
To microwave or not to microwave water for tea? That is the question. You don’t have to look hard to find people who have strong opinions about this issue. But if you’re trying to find cold hard facts, you’re going to have to look a lot harder. There doesn’t seem to be any consensus on… Continue reading
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A Poem (or 2 or 3) in Praise of Tea
Over the years a number of poets have found themselves so enamored of the charms of tea they have been driven to pen tributes to it. For a recent example of this sort of thing, take a look at this review of Elizabeth Darcy Jones’ Distinguished Leaves: Poems for Tea Lovers, which was published in… Continue reading
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Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum
There are tea parties and there are tea parties, but of course for those of us living in the United States the granddaddy of all tea parties is the one that took place in Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773. This is not the time or place for a history lesson, and besides most of… Continue reading
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Book Review: “The Gunpowder Gardens” by Jason Goodwin
Over the course of the years that I’ve been writing about tea I’ve had the good fortune to review quite a few books on the topic. While many of them were very entertaining and informative, with a few notable exceptions they weren’t necessarily the kind of page turners that you’d be likely to sit down… Continue reading
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Yorkshire Tea from Taylors of Harrogate
At just about a century and a quarter, British tea company Taylors of Harrogate could be considered a relative youngster, especially when you consider that there are British tea merchants who have been doing their thing for more than 300 years. Things got underway for Taylors of Harrogate in 1886, when brothers Charles and Llewellyn… Continue reading
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