A coffee-drinking friend sent me this tea tale from a tea-drinking friend of his:“One day my mother was out and my dad was in charge of me. I was maybe 2 ½ years old and had just recovered from an accident. Someone had given me...

Now that summer is officially over, the events calendar in New York is heating up, and many of the recent activities were tea based. Curtis Vreeland, who writes about chocolate industry trends, contacted me to propose a “tea...

Last April, on my way home from a tea tour of China, Tibet and Taiwan, I spent a few days in Tokyo. A Japanese friend, whom I’d met in New York, opened her home to me and arranged a city-wide tea tour. My introduction began...