William I. Lengeman III
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Tea and Spirits
By William I. Lengeman III The next time you can’t decide whether to have a drink or a cup of tea, maybe it’s time to consider sampling a beverage that combines both in one bottle. If you thought Long Island Iced Tea was the ultimate combination of tea and alcohol, well, not so fast. This… Continue reading
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Tea Taster – A Tea Lover’s Dream Job
By William I. Lengeman III To many of us tea-lovers, tea-taster might seem like the ultimate profession, a vocation as desirable as the fabled mattress tester. Tea tasting may conjure images of a crackling fire, a plate of delicacies and bottomless wells of fine tea, but in reality tasting tea for a living is hard… Continue reading
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Rooibos: South Africa’s “Redbush” Herbal
Rooibos is a South African herbal “tea” whose popularity has grown by leaps and bounds in the course of the past decade. According to one source, worldwide export sales of the plant grew by 400 percent in a five-year span ending in 2003. Rooibos (Aspalathus linearis) takes its name from an African word of Dutch… Continue reading
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How to Brew the Perfect Cup of Tea
The perfect cup of tea – it’s an elusive creature and one that may not even exist. But if you’re willing to settle for a nearly perfect cup of tea, you’d do well to keep these guidelines in mind. Water Quality The ancient Chinese scholar Lu Yu said water from mountain streams is best for… Continue reading
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Tea Quotations
By William I. Lengeman III Did you ever wish you were one of those people who could come up with clever witticisms that would still be bandied about hundreds of years later? Here are a few of the more worthwhile comments made about tea over the last few centuries. Of course, these are just the… Continue reading
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Types of Green Tea: Gyokuro
By William I. Lengeman III For serious connoisseurs and students of green tea there are primarily two countries of origin worthy of mention. Though a few other countries produce quality green tea in modest amounts, their output pales next to that of the kings of green – China and Japan. Green tea fans would do… Continue reading
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More Essential Tea Books
By William I. Lengeman III The Tea Shop Mystery Series By Laura Child Given the popularity of mysteries and the increasing interest in tea and tea culture, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that some enterprising author would combine the two. Oolong Dead, released earlier this year, marks the tenth in Laura Child’s Tea Shop… Continue reading
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Got Milk?
By William I. Lengeman III When it comes to tea and milk – as with tea and sugar – everyone likes what they like and there is no correct answer. For many tea drinkers the idea of downing a cup without milk is inconceivable. On the other hand are those who couldn’t imagine sullying their… Continue reading
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Taking My Sugar to Tea: To Sweeten or Not to Sweeten
by William I. Lengeman III In the opinion of novelist Henry Fielding, “love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.” But for so many of Fielding’s countrymen, black tea with milk and sugar is a right and a requirement that’s become one of the icons with which the British are closely associated. For many… Continue reading
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Tea With Bite: Bubble Tea
by William I. Lengeman III For those unfamiliar with an offbeat beverage called bubble tea, also known as boba, their first experience can be surprising, to say the least. Though it’s actually more like a tea-based drink than actual tea, bubble tea takes its name from the small pearls of tapioca that reside in the… Continue reading
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