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Review of Scottish Breakfast Tea from The English Tea Store
Type of tea: Black Loose or bagged: Loose Recommended steep time: 3-8 minutes, depending on preferred strength One of the teas featured in a list of teas I would like to explore more, Scottish Breakfast tea from the English Tea Store is a bold, strong black tea without flavouring or scenting. It can be brewed… Continue reading
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The Tea Trolley
“Clang! Clang! Clang went the trolley…” sang Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis. But it was definitely not a tea trolley. It was just some big, noisy contrivance that ran along rails laid down in the streets of St. Louis and that had a loud bell on it that was rung when the… 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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Can You Get a Premium Silver Needle Tea from India?
Some of us tend to think of Silver Needle as the sole purveyance of the Fujian Province in China (see an earlier article comparing versions). But is that just tea snobbery or tea ignorance or maybe even a bad tea experience? In my case it could be all three. Sigh! Fortunately, I am always eager… Continue reading
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Tea Journeys
I’ve written a lot about travelling with tea, but what about tea that travels? There is, of course, a lot of tea that gets shipped en masse across the world as imports and exports; tea is a popular drink across the world, and most of the tea in Europe and the United States is shipped in from… Continue reading
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If Your Teapot Could Talk…
I’ve been exploring some of the many teapot styles available to all us tea lovers out there and got a comment back about a treasured teapot in which many a fine cuppa had been steeped and if only that teapot could talk. Well, that, of course, sets the mind to wondering: if your teapot could… Continue reading
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Louis the PG Tips Chimp – RIP
Not to be too much of a downer, but it was reported some time ago that a chimp named Louis passed away at the age of 37. Louis was one of the well-known chimps featured in advertising campaigns for PG Tips tea brand and its iconic marketing campaigns. He spent his later years at a… Continue reading
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Is There a Perfect English Tea?
The idea of perfect tea and being able to make that ideal cuppa seems to be all pervasive. We have featured several articles on this blog by fellow writer Bill Lengeman on this topic (see list at end of this article). Nevertheless, I am diving into the topic with gusto and adding to the huge… Continue reading
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Strange Research on Tea
In the course of writing about tea, I’ve come across many research studies. Most appear to be thoughtful and well-constructed, even to a layperson. However, every so often, a few emerge that are a bit more unusual. Rather than saving the most unusual for last, let’s begin with one involving Chinese black tea and hair… Continue reading
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Tea in the Movies — “Goodbye, Mr. Chips”
Classic novels often make their way to the screen—sometimes more than once. Such is the case with Goodbye, Mr. Chips. So let’s steep a proper tea and revisit what, to me, is the best film version. A Tea to Match the Occasion We need a tea worthy of the setting—life at an English boarding school… Continue reading
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