I’m a big fan of Dr. Mehmet Oz. Oprah has him on her show at least once a month. The man has single- handedly turned America on to a lot of healthy ideas and dispelled many myths and answered lots of difficult questions - everything you’ve always wanted to know but were [...]
I just returned from five wonderful days at Depoe Bay on the Oregon coast. Depoe Bay is a very small town on the coast that is known for its robustly rugged rocky rendezvous respites for whales and humans alike. It is, apparently, the spot on the Oregon coast for whale watching. I say apparently because [...]
Evaluate this scenario: It is the parking lot of a supermarket. Far from the front door, next to a newspaper and cardboard recycling station, are a few empty parking places. It is late afternoon in that month known locally as Junuary. The wind is howling, and cold raindrops the size of [...]
I must confess that I often make my tea in a rush. Life is very busy and I imagine that I’m like a lot of people in that regard . . . rushing from one task to another. I spent the last few days at the coast of Oregon and had an opportunity [...]
In response to mass merchandizing and advertising, the British increased their consumption of (heavily sweetened) tea steadily right through World War I, and their counterparts in the British dominions followed suit. Australia absorbed tea at the astonishing rate of 7.7 pounds per capita in 1899; U.S. per capita consumption reached its highest point in [...]
When I was in Darjeeling in February, it became immediately apparent that something different was happening there. One of the things that grabbed my attention was the sight of hand written signs everywhere with the word Gorkhaland written on them. In addition, I often would see trucks loaded with men driving around honking and chanting [...]
Drink your tea slowly and reverently,
as if it is the axis
on which the world earth revolves
- slowly, evenly, without
rushing toward the future;
Live the actual moment.
Only this moment is life.
by Thich Nhat Hahn
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June is National Iced Tea Month. According to the tale, a vendor at a blistering hot World’s Fair early in the last century could not even give away hot tea. Out of desperation, he jammed some ice in a cup, poured hot tea over it, and . . . an instant [...]
Can one industry come together to reduce the ever-growing rates of obesity? With obesity at an all-time high there is no better time than NOW! Will the TEA industry rise to meet this challenge?
This is what fellow STI (Specialty Tea Institute) member, Dharlene Fahl-Brittian from TAKE UP THE CUP, was asking at the World Tea [...]
Steam, smelly steam brought the tea trade into the industrial age. An age-old handmade product could now be manufactured by steam powered machinery and delivered (via Suez) by steamships in half the time of the fastest, most glamorous clipper ship, which required a picked crew, a high freight rate, and a lot of luck. [...]
