More than 400 articles celebrating togetherness
Hosting A Tea Party With A Splash Of Creativity
Creative pursuits are as hot as freshly-made tea right now: Nearly two-thirds of American households participate in at least one creative hobby, and...
Invitation To Tea: A Revolutionary Song
( Note from editor: This was originally posted on March 4, but was accidentally deleted on March 5 when we changed servers ) On February 5th--2019’s...
Value of Language – Part 2
Continued from Value of Language - Part 1 My friend Rachel Cheng--teacher of the Chinese language programs at both schools--introduced me to Brandi...
Value of Language – Part 1
“What good is it? I’ll never use it in my adult life”, my 12--“and a half”--year-old daughter exclaimed while struggling with her math homework....
One Ton of Tea and Countless Teapot Spouts
Three exhibit spaces in Los Angeles recently showcased the work of Chinese artist Ai WeiWei (b. 1957) who has lived and worked in Berlin,...
Happy Holidays One And All
Tis the season of festivities and we at T Ching wish you and yours a joyous holiday. May it be filled with family and dear friends sharing yummy...
Meeting Online Tea Friends
I’ve long since talked to lots of people online about tea. That relates most to writing a blog about tea, and being an admin for an...
Crafted Holiday Tea Gifts – Part 2
Continued from yesterday's post A few weeks ago I was talking with my mother-in-law about yarn arts. As the weather cools there’s less to do outside...
Crafted Holiday Tea Gifts – Part 1
Earlier this year I gave my younger brother a tea-related gift, inspired by his asking me about loose-leaf tea over bagged: A teapot that came with...
Georgia Tea Is Back!
A little over ten years ago, I wrote a post for this blog--Tea from Georgia will have to wait--about the setbacks in the tea industry in the...
Online Social Networking Related to Tea – Part 2
Continued from Online Social Networking Related to Tea - Part 1 Tea maps: this isn't conventional social networking, more like a wiki project, but...
Online Social Networking Related to Tea – Part 1
Odd I've never brought this up before; there are lots of places to talk about and learn about tea online. Writing a blog post about reaching a...
Narendra Kumar Gurung on Developing Local Tea Production in Nepal – Part 2
Continued from yesterday's post Narendra Kumar Gurung on Developing Local Tea Production in Nepal - Part 1 In what way has the market for higher...
Narendra Kumar Gurung on Developing Local Tea Production in Nepal – Part 1
I recently talked with Narendra Kumar Gurung about tea production in Nepal. He has a limited history of working within that...
Tea Desire
As the desire for tea is growing — is the desire for better tea happening, too? I'm a little surprised to see that the tea selection in the grocery...
Portable Tearoom
The 2017 GRAMMY Awards gift bag is worth $30,000, including an $8,000 spa package. The organizer chose not to disclose this year’s value. How are...
Top 100 Tea Blog List Critique
I recently saw an online group post about a top 100 tea blogs list by Feedspot, which I'm critiquing here. According to the listing part of the...
The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party – Everything But Tea!
On May 20, 2018, this tea drinker enthusiastically attended The Mad Hatter's Tea Party at the historic Columbia Gorge Hotel in Hood River, Oregon....
The Tea Dragon Society
Return to T Ching Classics: Back to School While researching a topic I was considering writing about, I (happily!) stumbled across a delightful...
Glass Flowers
The first few glass flowers sent from the Blaschka workshop in Dresden, Germany to Harvard University’s Botanical Museum were badly damaged while...
Tea And Cycling – A Perfect British Combination
It is a well-known fact that Brits love a cuppa, in fact, 37% of British people drink 2 to 3 cups of tea a day and popping into a tea shop while out...
Tea Towel & A Yayoi Kusama Exhibit
The Broad’s special exhibit Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors closed a few weeks ago. Angelinos who missed the show could catch it at the remaining...
Tea as the “Milk of Human Kindness”
“May I make you a cup of tea?” Those eight words can mean so much more than a mere offer of liquid refreshment. They carry within them a deep...
International Tea Day – December 15th, 2017
According to Wikipedia, International Tea Day has been celebrated for the last 12 years all around the globe. "International Tea Day aims to draw...
A new TEA Meetup!
Who's doing what in your city and in your neighborhood? Most Internet searches on any topic of interest, in no time flat, will invariably lead you...
Online tea communities
It can be hard to find fellow tea lovers nearby. I can’t easily go into a restaurant and order a Shan Lin Xi oolong from this spring’s harvest and...
Tea group buying & the Sheng Olympiad: an interview with Andrew Richardson of Liquid Proust Teas
I’ve not written about non-standard tea sourcing before. A blog post citation from Cwyn's Death by Tea identifies the background: “More and more...
These are my favorite tea memories
My association with drinking tea goes back several years. I have a collection of some favorite memories of tea that I find myself going back to...
Tea Is A Culture Bridge
The Chinese have many words for people who, like myself, have Chinese ancestry but are not from China. They range from the common and innocuous hua...
Partners in Tea
It has been almost a decade for me as a contributor here on T Ching, and I have stated many times how I feel those of us in the world of tea can all...
A Nepal tea story
EDIT: The Kickstarter campaign is now live and can be found here. Tea is often the drink to accompany conversations. Tea keeps you warm on a rainy...
A Conversation with Totem Tea
Taiwan is home to some of my favorite styles of tea. From the buttery floral high mountain oolongs, to the honey flavored bug bitten teas, to the...
Tea; How Some Tea Traditions Can Bridge a Gap And Bring Us Together
No matter who you voted for, hopefully, you voted your conscience. We will have a President-elect who will do his best, and an outgoing...
Packing a Punch in Earthen Cups
For tea lovers, drinking tea in an earthen or terra cotta cup, like the ones used in northern India, is a wonderful tea experience. The matka which...
Can You Still Drink Bagged Tea?
As we become accustomed to higher-quality teas, we naturally tend to set the bar higher. The same can be said for coffee, wine, beer, and just about...
Tea Friends Meet Up in Chicago
The tea drinking community is an incredibly friendly and welcoming one. I have been a member of a tea forum called Steepster since 2011 and recently...
Interview with Ken Cohen of the Talking Tea Podcast
The Talking Tea podcast explores the tea culture of North America. Hosted by Ken Cohen, the podcast touches on popular and less common aspects of...
T Ching named Best Tea Blog of 2016
It is with tremendous pride that I have the pleasure to announce that T Ching has won the Best Tea Blog award at the World Tea Expo. Without each...
World Tea Expo is a Time of Networking
It’s World Tea Expo time; a favorite time of year for tea people around the globe. For three days one of the largest gatherings of tea producers,...
A Tea Enthusiast Quits Tea: Part Two
Read Part One here. Cost of a tea habit Another different type of negative concern relates to the cost. Of course, he was prone to excess, and...
Tea with the Elderly
Never before in history have we experienced five generations existing at the same time in the numbers we are currently seeing! It's an exciting time...
Long-Term Payoffs
Appendectomies are usually done on male teenagers, so the nurse told me when I asked if it wasn't unusual for a female Baby Boomer to have just had...
Making Rock Oolong: An Interview with Cindy Chen
The following relates to asking an online tea friend questions about tea, Cindy Chen. She lives in Wuyishan, the village area beside the mountains...
Interview: Conundrum Tea
In September of 2015, a new tea vendor called Conundrum Tea launched. I was able to try some of their teas when they launched, and really enjoyed...
Tea in Pamplona
Most Americans know one thing about the city where I was born. They know of the famous week-long festival, and when they meet me they assume that...
Tea Certificate
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and many more social media sites have done unparallelled work for the cause of innumerable tea businesses all over the...
The Evolving Tea Culture of the Pacific Northwest
Following in the tradition developed last year, my team took an epic road trip up the West Coast to connect with our tea friends in the Pacific...
The Tea Family
One thing I love most about tea is the tea industry "family". I haven't been able to meet many of the people I have gotten to know through blogs,...
Tea Time and Bingo: Britain’s Favorite Pastimes
There are probably very few things in this world as closely tied to British culture as tea. Tea is a national obsession, with the UK having consumed...
Starbucks and Deforestation…?
I got an email this morning with some disturbing information. It appears that Starbucks hasn't been a good citizen of the environment. They tout...