William I. Lengeman III
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Novelty Tea Kettles
If you find the tea making process entirely too taxing, there are many gadgets these days that seek to automate the process as much as possible. While some of them do the job quite nicely, there’s typically a price to pay – an actual financial price, that is – for all of this high-falutin’ gadgetry.… Continue reading
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Wartime Tea Rationing
So keep your ration Book in Hand And we’ll drink tea across the land And an extra cup for Granny too And all our dashing lads in blue. – British poem about tea rationing – “War is hell.” It’s a quote that’s often attributed to Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman, who made a good… Continue reading
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Gadgets & Offbeat Tea News Revisited
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door, or so the old saying goes. While the pursuit of innovations in mousetrap design may not actually be the road to success and untold riches these days, it seems that there’s always someone trying to come up with a better automatic… Continue reading
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“Letter to a Friend, Concerning Tea,” by John Wesley
Anyone who has ever heard of John Wesley (1703 – 1791) probably knows him as the prominent theologian who, along with his brother Charles, is credited with being one of the founders of the Methodist branch of Christianity. What few people are probably aware of is that Wesley wrote about tea, most notably in his… Continue reading
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On the Adulteration of Tea
For tea drinkers these days it’s probably a pretty safe bet that if you’re dealing with a somewhat reputable tea merchant you’ll get the tea you’re paying for. In other words, you’ll get the tea leaves that were advertised without anything else added to the mix. Which wasn’t always the case. Once upon a time… Continue reading
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Green Tea for Oral Health?
Is there any miraculous health benefit that has yet to be laid at the feet of green tea? Aside from curing bubonic plague and the gout, it seems like just about everything else has been covered. To paraphrase the old advertising slogan about orange juice, “a day without a report about green tea’s health benefits… Continue reading
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How Do You Spell Tea?
According to Wikipedia, a style guide “is a set of standards for the writing and design of documents, either for general use or for a specific publication, organization or field.” While there are many such guides in circulation nowadays, some of the best known are probably The Chicago Manual of Style and The Associated Press… Continue reading
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Lowering Blood Pressure with Black Tea?
According to the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), about one in three Americans suffer from high blood pressure, which they call “a serious condition that can lead to coronary heart disease (also called coronary artery disease), heart failure, stroke, kidney failure, and other health problems.” Though many of these people have been diagnosed… Continue reading
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Rock and Roll Tea Shops
Is there anything more rock and roll than tea? Umm. Well, if the truth be told, tea is probably still suffering from something of an image problem. You know the one — elderly women in festive hats gathering in stuffy tea houses to drink so-so tea and eat those little sandwiches with the crusts removed.… Continue reading
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“The Way of Tea” by Aaron Fisher
In the course of several years spent writing about tea at this site, at my own site, and various others, I’ve read and reviewed quite a few tea books and have encountered a lot of other titles in passing. On the whole they seem to fall into a few main categories. There are the broad… Continue reading
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