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William I. Lengeman III

  • Will U.S. Tea Sales Ever Top Coffee?

    In the United States, the land that spawned that beverage behemoth known as Starbucks, we’re obviously known more for our consumption of coffee than of tea. But if the truth be told, we actually rank relatively low on the list of coffee gluttons, tied for about 20th place with the Macedonians, who also consume about… Continue reading

  • A Debate Between Tea and Beer (an ancient Chinese text)

    One of the great things about the digital revolution is the whopping number of old books and documents — including many on tea — that are now just a mouse click away. If that’s not exciting enough, then consider that many such books are free. But though it might seem that every bit of printed… Continue reading

  • Tea, North African Style

    What comes to mind when you think of drinking tea probably has a lot to do with how and where you were brought up. For those of us here in the United States “tea” is as likely as not to conjure up an image of a sweetened black preparation in a tall glass with ice… Continue reading

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  • Arcane Tea Terms: Bohea

    Though it’s mainly a term used in days of yore, there are actually a few scattered merchants these days who offer something known as Bohea tea. Over the years there has been some mild confusion regarding its point of origin, but Bohea was (and is) most commonly used to describe a type of tea from… Continue reading

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  • A Cup a Day Helps Keep Heart Disease Away?

    Disclaimer: This is not intended as medical advice. Please consult your physician for your particular needs. As most of us are probably aware, heart disease is no small problem nowadays. Here in the United States alone the facts regarding this condition are rather eye-opening. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) heart disease is… Continue reading

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  • Tea, Exercise, and Hydration

    You don’t need to be an expert in human biology to understand the importance of staying hydrated while you’re exercising. Of course, it’s important to stay hydrated all the time, but that’s especially the case when you’re exercising. As the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) notes, body weight can decrease anywhere from one to… Continue reading

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  • Bringing Tea to Darjeeling

    As far as I’m aware the Darjeeling tea industry doesn’t have a slogan, but if they did, perhaps something along the lines of “quality, not quantity” would be suitable. The total output of tea produced in this region of India is pretty much a drop in the bucket when stacked up against India’s other great… Continue reading

  • Tea Pioneers: Horniman’s Tea

    Tea companies come and tea companies go, though it’s worth noting that there are several such firms that measure their age in centuries rather than merely in years. If you’d been drinking tea in the nineteenth century, chances are you’d have been aware of Horniman’s Tea. Though they only got started in the early nineteenth… Continue reading

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  • A Narrative of the Conduct of the Tea-Dealers

    There are those tea merchants who pride themselves in cutting out the middlemen and dealing directly with the people who grow tea. But there are probably more cases in which tea goes through at least one of those middlemen before it gets into the hands of the people who sell it to us, the consumers.… Continue reading

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  • How Tea Became Hip

    How did tea become hip? Hold on a minute. Things have improved in recent years or perhaps even decades, but one could still argue that tea is suffering from an image problem. You know the one – staid tea rooms frequented by ladies of a certain age, neatly trimmed crustless sandwiches, and so on. Not… Continue reading

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