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Putting the “British” into a British Product
The U.S. is thought of as a melting pot of cultures, but they are not alone in this worldwide, at least not in recent years. Great Britain influenced so much of the world and was in turn influenced by it, and so qualifies as a melting pot. Tea, foods, spices, and much more from the… Continue reading
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“Home-Grown Tea” by George Frederick Mitchell
It has often been noted that the United States has never been a major center of tea production. Nevertheless, interest in cultivating tea domestically has existed for more than a century. In 1907, the USDA published Farmers’ Bulletin 301, Home-Grown Tea, by George Frederick Mitchell—a concise but informative guide aimed at amateur growers interested in… Continue reading
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Recent and Upcoming Tea Books 9
In my quest to keep up with the latest and greatest tea books I like to think I’m aware of most of what’s out there or is coming soon. But it appears that one slipped by me. It’s called A Social History of Tea and it’s by noted tea experts Jane Pettigrew and Bruce Richardson. It… Continue reading
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More Strange Research on Tea
We begin this latest look at unusual tea research with a study that may not be especially strange, but is certainly interesting. It is often assumed that studies on tea compounds such as catechins and EGCG are relatively recent developments. However, research into these compounds dates back much further. One early example is The Catechins… Continue reading
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When Tea Came To Japan
The general consensus these days is that tea drinking and production got its start in China, a nation that still grows more tea than any other. There’s a quaint and persistent notion that tea was accidentally discovered there in exactly 2784 BC by a Chinese emperor, but the truth of the matter is probably a… Continue reading
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Humans vs. Machines in the Tea Fields
From the time human beings first began devising machines, there have likely been others arguing for a return to simpler methods. One well-known historical example is the Luddites—nineteenth-century weavers who protested the rise of machinery during the Industrial Revolution. As with many agricultural products, the first key step in bringing tea to market is harvesting.… Continue reading
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Victoria Wood’s Nice Cup of Tea
If you’re like me and you live over here on the left side of the Atlantic, the name Victoria Wood might not mean that much to you. If you need to get up to speed, consider that, as a headline in one Canadian magazine put it, Wood is “The Funniest British Comedian You’ve Never Heard… Continue reading
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A Mistress and her Servant. – Dialogues on Trade in Tea and Sugar, Etc.
You could probably make a vocation out of studying the many historic texts on tea now freely available in digital form. Some of these works are dense and academic, while others are more engaging—and a few veer into decidedly unusual territory. One such example is an 1870 work by Alexander Teetgen titled A Mistress and… Continue reading
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Recent and Upcoming Tea Books 8
Arguably one of the first modern books to take tea seriously, James Norwood Pratt’s Tea Lover’s Treasury debuted in 1982, well before the recent surge of interest in specialty and high-quality teas. Finding a copy today can seem confusing at first, but the variations are fairly straightforward once you know the history. The original edition… Continue reading
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