What is Chabanare?
Chabanare may be a “tea” word that you’ve never heard before. In Japanese, there...
Cooking With Tea
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Butternut Squash Muffins with Chai and Chocolate
I grew up under the perpetually sunny skies of California. I did not have the concept of the air...
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Health & Well-Being
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How do You Explain the Unique Qualities of Tea?
A huge part of my job as a tea importer trying to establish Chinese tea service as a cultural practice in America is drawing analogies. This is quite easy when it comes to the tea itself – good tea, like good wine, beer, chocolate, coffee, liquor, or pretty much
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Spirituality
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Exploring the Meaning of Tea 6; Tea is an Act of Kindness
There is no mastery in self-service. In this tradition we don’t learn to make tea but to serve tea. True mastery must be in the service of mankind. As we progress, we come to understand that we serve the evolution of consciousness itself, and that the growth and
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Tea Parties
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The Importance of Cucumber Sandwiches
I’ve recently spoken with several people about Oscar Wilde’s comedy of manners and mistaken...
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Tea and Food Pairing; What Goes With Tea?
People who are new to artisan teas wonder what to eat with tea. When you explore past the grocery...
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Beyond the Basics
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Pesticides and Tea; Historical Look at Agriculture and Pesticides
Are pesticides used in tea? The short answer is “very likely.” In 2014 the CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corporation) conducted a study on 10 popular brands of tea including Twinnings and Lipton to test pesticide residue in the dry tea leaves: "Half of the teas tested contained pesticide residues above the allowable limits in Canada.
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History
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The Beginning of Tea; From the Ancient World to Lu Yu
Tea is a Treasure of the World – Before Tea Literature As a consciousness-altering agent it...
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Travel
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Empowering Kenya’s Small-Scale Tea Farmers
When you can get good orthodox tea from Kenya, it tends to be exceptional. I have enjoyed numerous cups of Tinderet and Millima, and the odd cup of Kamba purple tea over the years and always asked myself why...
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Op-Ed
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Do You Have a Favorite Tea? Searching for “The One”
We all go on a quest in life looking for something to make it all worth it. We date in search for the one; we apply to jobs in search for one; we look for purpose in search of one. On this journey, we so often find others that we loosely call our favorite, or a temporary favorite, yet we are (hopefully) selective before we dedicate ourselves to one.
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Tea People
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International Tea Day 2022
What is International Tea Day On December 19, 2019, the United Nations General Assembly declared...
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Art & Design
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Cleaning Teaware: the Tea Master”Bathing the Immortals”
You can tell a lot about artisans by how they care for their tools. The same can be said of a musician and her instruments, or a chef and his knives. Just as a master of any skill or craft can be distinguished from an amateur by that singular, effortless grace known to the Chinese as gong fu,
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Tea In Literature
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Tea in Literature: Polly put the kettle on, We’ll all have tea.
On the occasion of Charles Dickens' 200th birthday, tea lovers around the world echoed this famous quote from the familiar Mother Goose rhyme...
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Tea and Self-Care; Ritual Bathing
Tea and Self-Care One trending phrase in health and wellness is “self care”. I realized that...
Exploring the Meaning of Tea 5; Tea is Friendship
Tea has always been the emblem of civilization and peace. “Through tea make friends” is an old proverb expressing the sentiments we share with tea. Tea isn’t always deep and transcendent; it is sometimes a time/space of calm joy, where we can celebrate old friends and make new ones.
A Tea Tour and Conference Event in the Country of Georgia
An upcoming tea conference in Georgia, which reminded me of trying their tea.
Understanding the Current Conflict Between the Tea Producers in Nepal and India
This article has been contributed by Nishchal Banskota, founder of the Nepal Tea Collective. The...
Thai Wild-Origin Sheng
Preserving some of the oldest tea plants growing in Thailand and trying wild-origin sheng.
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