William I. Lengeman III
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Tea Pioneers: Thomas Twining
Starting a business can be a tough row to hoe. Nowadays, according to the United States Small Business Adminstration about half of all small businesses here are likely to fail within the first five years. So if you managed to somehow come up with a business that were to survive for the next 300 years… Continue reading
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Offbeat News & Gadgets
The great wide world of tea is not a particularly strange one, as these things go, but there are enough offbeat tidbits of news and quirky gadgets to merit a brief piece of this sort now and again. It’s been a while since the last one so hang onto your hats. Here we go. I… Continue reading
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Tea People — Steven Smith
The last article I wrote for this site (though publication schedules won’t necessarily reflect it) was a profile of Thomas Twining, the man responsible for creating the company that became Twinings of London. It’s company that’s survived and thrived for more than three hundred years now, a considerable feat given the whopping number of businesses… Continue reading
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Green Tea and HFCS
Times have been kind of tough lately for high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a substance which has been coming under fire over the course of the past few years. The popular and rather ubiquitous sweetener has been disparaged in certain quarters of late, with some blaming it for contributing to an increase in obesity, among… Continue reading
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Twenty Years in the Republic of Tea
Do you need a gimmick to stand out in the great wide world of tea selling? There are many successful merchants whose continued existence disproves that notion. But a great gimmick probably doesn’t hurt, especially if it’s combined with a good product. Take the case of the Republic of Tea, for instance. While they offer… Continue reading
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“The Chinese Art of Tea” by John Blofeld
Once upon a time, you could safely say that the art of tea and the Chinese art of tea were the same thing, given that the Chinese are credited with being the first people to drink our beloved beverage. But even though tea drinking eventually spread to other countries it’s worth noting that the Chinese… Continue reading
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“A Popular Treatise on Tea” by John Sumner
If you head out to the Internet looking for tea books from yesteryear, you’ll find enough to keep you occupied for a very long time. I’ve written about quite a few such works in these very pages, but to the best of my recall I can’t think of one that was written by an author… Continue reading
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Tea Pioneers of Great Britain
The British were not the first people to drink tea and they were not even the first Europeans to do so. They have never grown tea on their own soil, except in very modest amounts at one or two plantations, nor do they drink the most tea on a per capita basis. And yet when… Continue reading
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Honeybush: The Other Red “Tea”
There’s no such thing as red tea, at least not in the strictest sense of the word. But there are some beverages that have come to be referred to as “red tea” over the years and will probably continue to be referred to as such by anyone but the most exacting sticklers for accuracy. Take… Continue reading
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Yunnan Black Tea (Dian Hong)
As much as I like a great cup of Chinese or Japanese green tea, I have to say that, for me, there’s nothing quite like black tea. I’ve said it many times before and I’m sure I’ll say it many more – for me Assam is the be all and end all when it comes… Continue reading
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