With every new era, we lament the passing of one cultural paradigm or another; a technology is no longer needed or useful (rotary dial phones, typewriters, meat grinders), or a dance technique or art style fades in popularity, becoming the object of study for a few academics and hobbyists. Sadly, sometimes a region of [...]
Someone out there likes Twisted Tea. Around since 2001, this beverage company attempts to marry tea and beer. The union has produced several offspring, ranging from a peach-flavored sister to a half-and-half brother. The oldest in the litter is Original.
Original “Twisted Tea” is neither tea, nor beer, but manages to collect the [...]
With its endless mountains, abundant rainfall and pure environment, China’s Southwest Guizhou (Gway Joe) province is a perfect location for growing tea bushes. However, despite a long history of tea cultivation, the province is little known in the West. Even within China it takes a distant back seat to other places like Yunnan, Sichuan, Fujian [...]
That’s correct. You didn’t misread the title. Nor is it a typo. Drinking tea might just help protect you from an attack using biological weapons such as anthrax or botulinum toxin. I know it sounds pretty far fetched, but I just read an article about a team of British and American researchers who got together [...]
As Alexander had unleashed the hoarded gold of Persia, and the Roman preconsuls had seized upon the the spoils of Greece and Pontus, and the Conquistadors the silver of Peru, so now did the English nabobs, merchant princes and adventurers . . . Unthaw the frozen treasure of Hindustan and pour it into England.
-Major-General [...]
The three boys in front of me looked unwell. One had glassy eyes, and his mouth was set in what can only be called a grimace. On the other side, the lad kept blinking and licking his lips, as if they were dry. The boy in the middle, Eliot, was silent as a mountain, yet [...]
Six in the morning
At a modest motel
Checking out, the
Free breakfast as well.
Muffins, sweet. English.
Pale bananas too firm.
Orange juice and coffee
No tea.
A tiny stash, whole leaf
A teapot and six little cups.
Hot water was easy.
Soon, all was right.
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As Americans, we tend to be divorced from the source of our consumables. It is easy for us to go to an Ubermarket to get our food and find it all there in abundance. If we can’t find what we want in Uberstores, we can just jump on the internet and before you know it, [...]
I’m not in the habit of drinking tea in the evening, but today when I was at the grocery store I looked at the choices for tea, and decided to buy some Tazo Green Spring Tips tea. Then, after dinner (West African Chicken Peanut soup and rice, accompanied by an Italian Pinot gris), I [...]
The history of tea abounds with Scotsmen. One named Robert Bruce had ventured to explore Assam a decade before the Company appointed its Tea Committee. This adventurer had lived with the native tribes of this remote province between India and Burma and discovered they drank tea which they themselves [...]
