“Hail! Queen of Plants, Pride of Elysian Bow’rs!
How shall we speak thy complicated Pow’rs?
Thous Wond’rous Panacea, to asswage
The Calentures of Youth’s fermenting Rage,
And Animate the freezing Veins of Age.
To Bacchus when our griefs repair for Ease,
The Remedy proves worse than the Disease:
Where Reason we must lose to keep the Round,
And drinking Others Healths, our Own [...]
Next month, September 18, in Washington DC there will be a gathering of the scientific community who are focusing their attention on TEA: The Fourth International Scientific Symposium on Tea and Human Health. The sponsors of the event:
American Cancer Society, American College of Nutrition, American Society for Nutrition, American Medical Womens Association, Linus [...]
I am hoping that you can help me think about something:
As Issue 3 of the Art of Tea lands on many of your doorsteps and you begin to read, you might think about whether you would rather learn the Chinese terms for all things tea related, via roman pinyin of course, or develop some kind [...]
In imitation of London, New York City came to support numerous coffeehouses and tea gardens. Over the course of the century there were three Vauxhalls alone, one Ranelagh, and several other. To make up for a lack of decent drinking water in Manhattan, the city was forced to establish special Tea Water Pumps, one of [...]
When my wife and I have guests at our home, serving tea is a part of our customs and something that requires a bit of thinking ahead. As overzealous hosts we often prepare meals in courses (and always too much). It is usually right before desserts that a mini dilemma would set in: What tea [...]
One day I was matcha
Thick green tea in a heavy bowl.
even this clay bowl can not contain my vitality
The quickness of my soul cannot be contained by matter
I am a green storm, whirling with ecstatic joy.
Leaping over clay and lip
Towards the inner experience of a human being.
I am electric vitality waiting to barge down doors
Opening [...]
I’m a long time fan of Martha Stewart. I learned from her how to iron a shirt, clean a bathroom, make a bed, as well as cook some fine dishes. If truth be told, I remember an early show where she featured Donny Yance, a renowned herbalist who actually talked about green tea. [...]
I had an interesting experience the other day that really made me think more about the extent of the effort ahead of all of us committed to promoting the life benefits of tea practice. It also made me appreciate more the frustration that Alex Miller expressed a week or more ago in a comment on [...]
I am heartily glad that we shall keep Jamaica and the
East Indies another year, that one may have time to
lay in a stock of tea and sugar to last for the rest of
one’s days. I think only of the necessaries of life….
The friends of government, who have thought on
nothing but reducing us to our islandhood [...]
I was shocked to read this article describing how disaster is the daily reality in the Dooars region of West Bengal. The closed and “sick tea gardens” of the Jalpaiguiri district have been essentially ignored by the Government. As Americans and the world enjoy their cup of Darjeeling tea, workers at tea estates are experiencing [...]
