William I. Lengeman III
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Guarding the Darjeeling Brand
Darjeeling is a region in northern India that’s probably best known for the premium quality black tea it turns out. It’s beloved of tea connoisseurs, but oddly enough the total amount of Darjeeling tea sold in a given year is typically greater than the amount grown. Which sounds impossible at first until you realize that… Continue reading
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Elephants, Lifeboats, and Williamson Tea
When it comes to tea, a company that’s just under a century and a half old is a relative youngster when stacked up against the likes of certain more senior concerns. Take Twinings, for instance. They’ve been doing their thing for 300 years, which is a pretty impressive figure by anyone’s reckoning. But of course… Continue reading
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Tea, Variety, and the Spice of Life
“Variety’s the very spice of life,” or so said the English poet William Cowper, which is a name that probably doesn’t turn up in many reading lists nowadays. And while I wouldn’t have much problem choosing black tea as my favorite of the six main types (black, green, oolong, white, yellow, puerh), I have to… Continue reading
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Toasted Leaves: An Essay on the Origin of Tea
One of the more pervasive legends about tea is that it was supposedly discovered in 2784 B.C. (according to the more detailed accounts) by a Chinese emperor (referred to as Chen Nung in some accounts) who was apparently keen to boil water for sanitary reasons. One day, as the story goes, the emperor was boiling… Continue reading
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Steep Tea, Tea Mattresses & Other Offbeat News
In late breaking news from China, here comes a report that claims that some of the more rare varieties of spring harvested tea are apparently fetching prices that literally make them worth their weight in gold – or even more. Among those varieties, a Longjing (Dragonwell) green tea from Zhejiang province, which is selling at… Continue reading
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Tea Pioneers: Thomas Lipton
If you ask the average person on the street to name a brand of tea, chances are pretty good that they’re going to come up with Lipton. Which is not surprising, since, as the company points out at their web site, “Lipton is the world’s best-known and best-selling brand of tea.” But of course it… Continue reading
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“The Preparation of Japan Tea” by Henry Gribble
When it comes to tea books of yesteryear, it seems that China and India get much of the attention. That’s based on my own decidedly casual and unscientific observations, and it’s not really surprising, given that they’ve been the world’s top producers for a long time. But it also led me to the tentative conclusion… Continue reading
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Tea, Testosterone Doping, and Babies
Sensational headlines are hardly unusual nowadays (or in the past, for that matter, to be historically accurate about it). Five minutes of the most cursory research would probably turn up more of them than you could shake a stick at. But for my money one of the more sensational tea-related headlines to come down the… Continue reading
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Offbeat Teas & Tisanes
The world of tea is a pretty vast one. It’s comprised of countless varieties of proper “tea” (which is derived only from the Camellia sinensis plant) and there are also numerous tea-like beverages that are often lumped in with tea. Most of these are more properly known as tisanes. When you consider that all of… Continue reading
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Is Tea Really Number Two?
The consensus seems to be that tea is the second most commonly consumed beverage in the world, after water. It’s a fascinating fact that’s often repeated and I’ve done so myself on a few occasions. Of course, there are a number of other “facts” about tea that are of dubious origin, including the one about… Continue reading
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