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The Battle of the Teabags
Here’s a quick quiz. Don’t worry—there’s only one question. What is the best shape for a tea bag? To the best of my knowledge—and setting aside novelty infusers and specialty designs—the leading contenders would be the traditional rectangular tea bag, the more modern round tea bag, and the relatively recent pyramid-shaped tea bag. If you… Continue reading
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Evolution of the Tea Bag
Tea bags have been around since the early 1900s. Back then they were hand sewn from silk muslin. Thomas Sullivan, a New York coffee and tea merchant, is credited with being the first person to market his tea in bags. It wasn’t long before machines were invented to manufacture the tea bags. Many other innovations followed and tea… Continue reading
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The Great Bag Debate
My grandfather came to the US via port-of-call in Boston. He left Birmingham as a young man and sailed to America to find a better life. When he came to the US, the tea he knew was loose, despite the fact that teabags were invented in 1907. Teabags were initially made from Chinese silk and… Continue reading
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