Teas On Board: Flying High with Low-Quality Tea
Recently, I took four flights in seven days. For tea lovers, those add up to a nightmare...
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Sustainable tea gift packaging – Branded designs for holiday and corporate gift sets
With the holiday season beginning earlier every year, it’s never too soon to start planning for ways to take full advantage of the growing popularity of tea as a must-have gift for holiday shoppers. A beautiful tea gift set…
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Tea cupping versus tea tasting
As a writer for Seattle Coffee Gear I have participated in coffee cuppings with Seattle-area roasters.
Read MoreTea – The cure for what ails
“Quackery” is a derogatory term used to describe the promotion of unproven or fraudulent medical practices (Wikipedia). Quackery is nothing new. The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 prevented the use of the...
Read MoreWhom is the FDA really protecting?
It was with great resentment that I read about the warning letter the FDA issued recently to Rishi Tea. The FDA takes the position that Rishi’s website “claims establish these products (tea) as drugs because...
Read MoreTasting tea at all levels
Lately my role at work has evolved to include training people to understand tea better. I have been a student of the leaf for four years and have had the great fortune of studying under Joshua Kaiser from Rishi Tea,...
Read MoreHong Yue – my latest tea discovery
During my time at Rishi Tea, I have been fortunate enough to cup high-mountain oolong teas that have left me speechless – teas that transported me to the mountainside and made me feel like I was walking through the misty...
Read MoreThe need for spice and warmth – fall baking and tea
Return to T Ching Classics: Autumn Baking I grew up under the perpetually sunny skies of California. I did not have the concept of the air cooling and becoming crisp, of the leaves changing and covering the streets in red and...
Read MoreHarnessing organic farming practices to produce the best tea
“We embrace the balance and harmony offered by nature, making use of what’s in our environment,” Mr. Nishi-san remarked when asked by Joshua Kaiser why his organic tea fields look so strong.Working for Rishi Tea has...
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