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William I. Lengeman III

  • Tea, Alertness and Sleep

    One of the great attractions of tea is that it’s good for a pick me up, thanks to its caffeine content. In this respect it’s much like coffee, but with tea there are additional factors that make the boost it offers a bit more gentle. The first point to consider is that the average cup… Continue reading

  • Tea and Coffee Circa 1839

    Having written about tea for a while, I’ve discovered that one of my favorite aspects of the process is seeing how perspectives have changed (and sometimes stayed the same) over the years. One of the volumes I examined recently is William Andrus Alcott’s Tea and Coffee, which first appeared in 1839 and which is available… Continue reading

  • Green Tea Is Good News for Fat Mice

    There’s no arguing about the fact that weight loss is a subject that attracts hordes of hucksters making a variety of extravagant claims. In many cases they are profiting quite nicely from it, which is probably why it continues. Unfortunately, tea is not immune to this sort of thing. If you have any doubts, trying… Continue reading

  • Offbeat Tea Houses and Cafés

    If you’re looking for some place to go for tea, you’re in luck. According to the Tea Association of the USA, the number of tearooms in the United States alone has increased from about 200 a decade and a half ago to almost three thousand nowadays. With all of those tea houses springing into action… Continue reading

  • Tea Tourism

    If you’re looking for a way to take your love for tea to the next level, the field of tea tourism offers an increasing number of options for anyone who would like to travel in the areas best known for turning out tea. What you’re not likely to find — unless I’m missing something —… Continue reading

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  • Tea and Cholesterol Revisited

    High cholesterol affects 42 million Americans, according to figures provided by Web MD. In addition, it’s estimated that another 63 million Americans have borderline high cholesterol. Of course, all cholesterol is not created equal, and there are good and bad varieties. The former (“good”) is known as high-density-lipoprotein, or HDL, and the latter (“bad”) cholesterol is… Continue reading

  • The Earl Grey Tea House

    Many tea lovers are probably aware of at least the bare bones of the Earl Grey story. Earl Grey, the tea, for those of you who may not be clued in yet, is a type of flavored black tea that has been doctored up with the highly fragrant and distinctive oil of bergamot. Bergamot is… Continue reading

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  • Evolution of the Tea Bag

    Like it or not, it’s probably safe to say that the tea bag is here to stay. The consensus among some tea lovers is still pretty much that nothing good can come from (or go into) a tea bag. At one time that might have been the case, in a day and age when the… Continue reading

  • Too Steep?

    The preparation of a fine cup of tea is a process that relies on a large number of variables. But you could safely narrow these down to the four most important. Paramount among these is the quality of the tea. If you start with bad or lackluster tea, you can hardly expect to wind up… Continue reading

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  • For Drinkers of Tea

    Americans love their coffee. Which is admittedly an offbeat way to start an article about tea, but it’s true. By one estimate, we drink a little more than 20 times as much coffee as tea on a per capita basis. One popular assumption about our tea drinking habits here in the good old USA is… Continue reading

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