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  • Recent Research on Tea and Health

    If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ve likely noticed numerous articles exploring possible connections between tea and improved health. If you’d like to revisit that material, you can browse this collection of posts covering various tea health benefit claims and related research . One topic we’ve previously explored involves tea’s potential role… Continue reading

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  • Tea Review: English Tea Store’s Izu Matcha

    (This is a review of a specific tea. If you would like more information about matcha in general, please see “The growing popularity of matcha” or follow the link below to product information for ETS’s Izu matcha.) Located about sixty miles southwest of Tokyo, the Izu Peninsula is a resort area favoured for its beautiful… Continue reading

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  • The State of English Tea

    Nobody knows anything. Screenwriter William Goldman may not have coined the phrase, but his use of it to describe the film industry has made it a lasting pop culture reference—one that may also apply to the state of tea drinking in the UK. If you’re looking for evidence suggesting the decline of British tea consumption,… Continue reading

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  • Tea in America – Some History

    For those of us who appreciate tea, it can be easy to forget that tea drinkers are somewhat of a minority in the United States. Despite popular belief, Americans did not abandon tea following the Boston Tea Party. Today, the country is perhaps best known for its consumption of iced tea and sweet tea, particularly… Continue reading

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  • Tea and a Good Rant

    The other day a Twitter pal posted her rant about some of the drivers out there who are — well — uh — less than well-mannered on the road. She pointed out a number of things I have experienced, too, just when driving to stores or the Post Office. It’s a madhouse out there on… Continue reading

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  • The Appeal of Tea to Techies

    Tea has a definite appeal to folks who are techies. It’s true, even though people often think of tea drinkers as genteel, sipping from their teacup and then dabbing their lips delicately with a linen napkin to soak up any stray drops. Quite a few tea folks I’ve become acquainted with in-person and through the… Continue reading

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  • Tea Growing in Thailand

    When you think of tea and of countries where it is grown, Thailand may not even be on the list. However, teas from Thailand are becoming better known to those seeking out something new to try. Whether they count as “rare teas” or not I’m not sure, but production and export are fairly limited at… Continue reading

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  • More Tea Advertising Icons

    One of the earliest advertisements for tea, at least in the western world, may have been the one which appeared in a London newspaper in 1658, “That excellent and by all pysitians approved China drink called by the Chineans Tcha, by other nations Tay, alias Tee, is sold at the Sultaness Head, a Cophee-house in… Continue reading

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  • A Vanilla Tea I Liked

    I recently reacquainted myself with flavoured teas and I was ever so tea-lighted to have come across another flavoured tea (specifically, a vanilla tea) that I like. A flavoured tea in the true sense of the term is a tea that has had a fruit, herb or spice added to it. How to tell that you have… Continue reading

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  • Cooking with Tea: Just Peachy!

    I was in the farmer’s market the other day and overheard someone say that they weren’t going to buy peaches because they’d had so many that they were sick of them. Huh? Sick of them? How can anyone not want to eat as many beautiful peaches as possible during their short growing season? Are there… Continue reading

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