It was just last Leap Year
That we began to fear
That what was stolen could now be won.
No matter who ran against that shrub of a man
Would lose and find his future undone.
How thankful are we,
For the soothing cup of tea
That transports us to worlds faraway.
The moments at hand may seem largely unplanned
Drink a cuppa and [...]
When you buy a new hat or a new car, you become immediately aware of how many people in your small world own the same fashion accessory. Since converting to tea just over a year ago, I have noticed not just the plethora of bottled tea drinks and tea bags, but also tea tablets, tea [...]
I came upon an article on Dr. Andrew Weil’s web site about green tea extract and liver damage.
I am a fan of Dr. Weil’s, and consider him to be the father of alternative medicine in this country. While I believe it will take people like him to impact change in the [...]
The story of the race itself is a digression of perhaps minor historical value, I admit, but I’d have to be cold as a Boston romance to consider omitting the classic account in Mr. Basil Lubbock’s 1914 book, The China Clippers. “The struggle,” he writes,
Began in the offices of the ships’ agents and in [...]
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 a little “tea set” as a get-well gift and it [...]
It’s Friday night and you’re in the grocery store. You’ve had a long, difficult week. The last thing you need is to struggle trying to decide if you want a beverage to help you relax, or one to energize you, or boost your health, or lubricate your social life. Well, Smirnoff has [...]
I’m always curious to learn about other countries and their interest in tea. I came upon an interesting list of the Top 10 Food Trends to watch for coming out of Toronto. As I would expect to find, tea was indeed part of the group but I must say, it was in [...]
In a recent post by T Ching president Sandy Bushberg, he mentions the confusion between oxidation, processing, and fermentation as it pertains to our favorite leaf. Wouldn’t you know that just a few hours after reading that post, I would find a long article, titled “What’s in a Leaf” that nicely summarizes a lot of [...]
Finally the news would arrive by semaphore that one or three or four clippers were beating up the English Channel. Then, as W.H. Ukers described it in his exhaustive classic All About Tea,
Swarms of sampling clerks would descend upon the docks to draw samples for brokers and wholesalers as soon [...]
I’ve been a fan of Dr. Mehmet Oz after seeing him on Oprah last year and reviewing his first book YOU - The Owners Manual. I was impressed with the readability of the information for the general public. I’ve Tivoed his name and as a result find shows that’s he’s in occasionally [...]
