Alexandra Hoover

Alexandra Hoover has been obsessed with tea ever since she visited her grandmother and watched jasmine flowers gracefully unfold in a mug. She drinks too many cups of tea a day and tries to make up for it by consuming more water than the average person ("tries" is the key word). She is a freelance writer who also creates reviews for a travel website and a Los Angeles community resource site. Alexandra has a degree in anthropology and would love to visit Japan to see an authentic tea ceremony in action.

Posts

A sun tea inspiration	16 May 2013
Growing herbal tea from seed bombs: Part 3	16 Apr 2013
Tea and addiction	19 Mar 2013
What really is kombucha?	19 Feb 2013
An exploration of strange concoctions and unlikely tea tools	16 Jan 2013
Tea, With Music: A review	19 Dec 2012
A peculiar Tibetan delicacy worth its weight in gold	13 Nov 2012
Are you both a tea lover and film / TV buff? Check out T Ching’s new contest!	16 Oct 2012
Down and Out at Bird Pick	18 Sep 2012
You don’t have to be a cat to enjoy catnip tea	15 Aug 2012
Tea epistemology	18 Jul 2012
Good Earth Tea’s tea tag quote contest	20 Jun 2012
A review of The Persimmon Tree’s Peach Apple Crisp tea	22 May 2012
Growing herbal tea from seed bombs: Part 2	27 Apr 2012
Growing herbal tea from seed bombs: Part 1	29 Mar 2012
The Winning Entry	06 Feb 2012
Attention aspiring photographers	26 Jan 2012
People’s tea, or “brown rice tea”	12 Jan 2012
Sage tea	13 Dec 2011
Soaking in tea	11 Nov 2011
Valen Dolcé – a Santa Monica find	14 Oct 2011
The tea cup: A quasi-anthropological / artistic experiment	08 Sep 2011
When you can’t have caffeine	06 Aug 2011
A traditional recipe for Masala Chai	08 Jul 2011
Rooibos, or South African “Red Tea”	10 Jun 2011
A tea-leaf reader in Los Angeles	12 May 2011
Why do you drink tea?	14 Apr 2011
Tea book reviews: Part 2	10 Mar 2011
Tea book reviews: Part 1	10 Feb 2011
Some tips on tea from George Orwell’s essay, “A Nice Cup of Tea”	13 Jan 2011
Sophia’s choice	09 Dec 2010
Tea’s ability to combat Alzheimer’s	11 Nov 2010
Saffron tea	13 Oct 2010
Finding a tea-leaf reader in Los Angeles	15 Sep 2010
Pregnant tea drinkers: The controversy	18 Aug 2010
What? Gardening and tea?!	21 Jul 2010
Sencha – the other green tea	03 Jun 2010
Forgetting – and remembering – mate	05 May 2010
Tea – a thesis	02 Apr 2010
Pu-erh – a tea with a multitude of exceptional qualities	05 Mar 2010
Not just “peasant tea”	05 Feb 2010
Advantages of green tea extract	01 Jan 2010
On the eleventh day of tea tasting, Lochan Tea Company gave to me…	01 Dec 2009
Transforming fears into tea	02 Nov 2009
Tea from coast to coast	05 Oct 2009
“The Teahouse Fire” will have you scrambling to remember your temae	07 Sep 2009
An experiment with analgesic tea	10 Aug 2009
Take a walk on tea’s wild side	17 Jul 2009
Tea: A thick description	10 Jun 2009
Five things I didn’t know—but now love—about tea	12 May 2009