William I. Lengeman III
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“The Book of Tea” by Kakuzo Okakura
As I’ve noted before, on more than a few occasions, the Internet and the trend toward digitizing old books has opened a whole new world of access to tea books from days gone by. But to be perfectly honest, with their somewhat dry style and specialized subject matter many of these books have languished in… Continue reading
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Novelty Tea Bags
If we go by the most commonly accepted version for the origin of the tea bag, this handy little gizmo has been with us for a little more than a century. If you have any doubt that it’s still going strong consider the relatively recent innovations in tea bag design, such as pyramid tea bags… Continue reading
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“The Art and Alchemy of Chinese Tea” by Daniel Reid
As coincidence would have it I came to the writings of Daniel Reid quite a while before I took up tea drinking. At his Web site, Reid describes himself as a “bestselling author and a leading expert on natural health and healing practices, chinese medicine and philosophy” and an author of “numerous books and magazine… Continue reading
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Darjeeling, Often Called “The Champagne of Tea”
Of all of the great tea-growing regions in the world, Darjeeling is not really among the more significant – at least not in quantity of tea produced. When it comes to the quality of the modest amounts of tea produced there, that’s a different story. As much or perhaps even more so than any other… Continue reading
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Confessions of a Tea Drinker
Confession is good for the soul – or so the saying goes. So without any further ado, my confession. I have not consumed hot tea for a very long time. I’d like to be able to say how long but it just sort of crept up on me and so I’m not really sure. It’s… Continue reading
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Reading Reade’s “Tea and Tea Drinking”
If you haven’t noticed from reading the frequent posts in these pages, one of my favorite tea-related topics to write about is tea books of yesteryear. It’s a topic that wouldn’t have been nearly so easy to write about a decade or more ago when older, more obscure books were harder to access. Nowadays, with… Continue reading
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About Gunpowder Tea
For better or for worse, it’s pretty much agreed that it was the Chinese who first came up with gunpowder, probably at least a thousand years ago. You could go one step further and make the argument that the Chinese were responsible for inventing two types of gunpowder. There’s the kind that’s used for shooting,… Continue reading
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Tea Bags Revisited
The teabag. You may love it or loathe it, but regardless of how you feel about it it’s probably with us until the universe goes dark. This tiny gizmo is said to have been invented a little over a century ago by a New York-based tea merchant whose customers decided to try steeping the silk… Continue reading
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About Golden Monkey Tea
Tea and monkeys. They go together like, well, like tea and monkeys. Or whatever. Take the persistent and probably fanciful legend about the monkeys that pick tea somewhere in China, adeptly clambering to pluck the leaves from hard to reach locations that clumsy human beings can’t hope to access. Then there are the PG Tips… Continue reading
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