William I. Lengeman III
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Origins of the Phrase “A Nice Cup of Tea”
I have always associated the phrase “a nice cup of tea” with the British. Whether it’s used anywhere else in the world I can’t say for sure but the British seem to give it quite a workout. One of the better-known uses of the phrase is as the title of an essay by George Orwell,… Continue reading
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Offbeat Tea Patents Revisited
If you assumed that the files of various patent offices are full of inventions that are eminently practical, useful, sober and serious, you’re absolutely right. But then there are the rest of the inventions. You could spend plenty of time perusing said files for offbeat and just plain weird patents, and I like to skim… Continue reading
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Monthly Tea Gadget and Offbeat News Report 19
I certainly don’t have the space in these monthly gadget reports to report on 27 gadgets. So I’ll start this installment by referring you to an article that does. It’s called 27 Items All Tea Lovers Need In Their Lives. A few of which might look familiar to anyone who reads this column. I could… Continue reading
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Earl Grey Tidbits & Trivia
As promised in the title of this article I will now attempt to regale, thrill and enlighten you with some tidbits and trivia about Earl Grey tea. But first a few basic facts. Earl Grey is named for a real person – an actual English Earl who lived in the nineteenth century. The other key… Continue reading
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Some Things I’ve Learned About Iced Tea
I don’t drink hot tea anymore. I wrote about it here, so I won’t cover it again except to say that it’s always iced tea season for me. But here in the northern hemisphere spring is in full swing and summer is approaching, and so one could safely say that it’s coming up on iced… Continue reading
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Why the British Hate Our Tea
Many British seem to have some very specific opinions about how tea should be done. Which is not surprising, I guess, given that tea has pretty much been an institution there for longer than we Americans have had a country. As I just mentioned in a recent article for this site, perhaps one of the… Continue reading
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Enhance Your Memory with Green Tea (claims a recent study)
I would drink green tea if there were no beneficial side effects at all – and for black tea that goes even more so. But as we all must surely know by now there are a lot of claims made for tea’s alleged benefits and many of these are focused on green tea. One of… Continue reading
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The Truth About Lie Tea
I’ve been writing about tea for a while now, and I’d like to think that I know a few things. Maybe I actually do. But from time to time I run across a tea-related tidbit I’d never heard of before. Take lie tea, for instance. I first encountered the term recently, when I was writing… Continue reading
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Tea Meets Wine
Disclaimer: Please drink responsibly. So, there’s wine and there’s tea and, as the popular saying goes, never the twain shall meet. Or shall they? To be quite honest, the notion of blending wine and tea isn’t a concept that sounds very appealing to me. But I could be a bit biased since I’ve never been… Continue reading
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What Your Tea Says About You II
In part one of this series, I took a look at a recent article in the British press. The writer tried to draw connections between certain types of people and the tea they drank. It was a fairly Brit-centric way of looking at things but as it turns out judging a person by the tea… Continue reading
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