Some tea shops sell everything under the sun that is tea related – the “be it all, end all” of tea, so to speak. Then there are other tea vendors who choose to sell only what they are passionate about, regardless of whether they have customers beating down the doors … Continue reading
This post – my first for T Ching – is being written in our tea shop early in the evening of May 21, a day that a Doomsday group has predicted the world will end. If I’m going to my rapture, it will be with a great cup of tea … Continue reading
The last month has been an incredibly busy one. I coordinated the 2011 Tea Appreciation Day and Rishi Tea, Numi, Lochan Tea, and an anonymous Japan tea company donated teas for tasting. I had what felt like my first real speaking engagement at Kulov’s 2011 Tea Lovers Festival in the … Continue reading
Even after a glorious and well-attended screening of The Meaning of Tea, by Scott Chamberlin Hoyt, at Kulov’s 2011 Tea Lovers Festival, one can still ask, “What is the meaning of tea?” Will we ever have one definitive answer? I think not, as befits the mystery and majesty of tea. … Continue reading
Half of the people in the United States think school teachers are the bravest people alive. The other half think we are insane. Many people think teachers are overpaid. After all, we work only nine months a year and get generous holiday and spring vacations. In this post, I am … Continue reading
It was with great resentment that I read about the warning letter the FDA issued recently to Rishi Tea. The FDA takes the position that Rishi’s website “claims establish these products (tea) as drugs because they were described as intended for use in the cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of … Continue reading