I’ve been scratching my head trying to understand why more people in the U.S. aren’t drinking tea. We know that it’s the most widely consumed beverage in the world. Why is the U.S. lagging so far behind the rest of the world? I like to think of us, here in … Continue reading
Do you have a holiday tea tradition? Want to start one?Check out these inspired ideas for celebrating the holidays with tea parties–written especially for the novice. Marie Younkin Waldman, talk show host and newspaper columnist, shares her philosophy and practice of creating meaningful, memorable holiday teas.We’d like to hear about … Continue reading
IN JAPAN, Continued from Part 5 Hideyoshi loved tea and he practiced chado after his own fashion. He sponsored probably the greatest tea party of all time, the invitation being in the form of an official edict, which is still preserved. All the tea lovers of the empire were summoned … Continue reading
We encourage you to consider this message from The Sole of Africa’s director, Charlie Gay:If you could solve one problem facing the world this Holiday Season … what would it be? Would you: Wipe out poverty? Guarantee that every child gets a first-rate education? End homelessness? Make war ravaged lands … Continue reading
On December 16th, 1773 in Boston, history was made with tea as a form of protest in the American colonies. What follows is a brief excerpt of that day from the New Tea Lover’s Treasury by James Norwood Pratt.Having appointed agents in Charleston, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, the Company … Continue reading
They are all a distant gray blue, the paint on windows andradiators, that moment in Paris with the tango records,the clock’s utterly domestic tic, when César, my friend, saidnot to boil the water for tea.He said, when you hear a sigh, lean over the pot on the stove,lift the lid … Continue reading