While Beverly Hills Psychiatrist Dr. Carole Lieberman interviewed me on her radio show on August 17, 2010, she surmised that I must have a warm and happy childhood memory about tea that led me to have the passion and fascination I have for tea today. We were talking about my new book, but, of course, [...]
The train from New Delhi to Amritsar clacked along the Indian countryside. From my second-class seat, I watched the bright saris of women in the gold-hued fields. The sunrise illuminated their silhouettes as the women tended the land, boiled water on makeshift stoves in their shanty houses, and bathed babies in buckets of mud-colored water.
I [...]
Consistently ranked among the Top 10 tea-producing countries in the world and frequently in the Top 5, Turkey today is a tea powerhouse on both the production and consumption sides of the equation. However, that has not always been the case. From the time the first tea seedlings were imported to Turkey from Japan and [...]
Today I am out on the edge of a rocky slope that overlooks a huge blue lake below and is covered in silvery
sagebrush, aspen trees whose heart-shaped leaves quake to expose their silver-sunned undersides, and various wildflowers (Arrowleaf Balsamroot, Yarrow, Lupine, and Rocky Mountain Phlox). I am on a quest to find juniper berries to [...]
Tea leaves
Tea loves
Loves tea
Lives tea
Leaves tea?
Never
- Uniek Swain
How can we love tea so much? Tea originated from China over 5,000 years ago when Shen Nongshi found tea accidentally after trying hundreds of wild plants. Most of us already know tea is healthy for the body. Gradually, we learn that tea is also healthy for the [...]
Why is it that the keys to building customer loyalty are so obvious and yet so few companies do it well? Any consumer can tell you what they want from a retailer, and most of them will also tell you that the majority of companies do a pretty poor job converting customers into passionate fans. [...]
Afternoon Tea
Should be provided, fresh supplies, bread and butter,
fancy pastries, cakes, etc.
Being brought in as other guests arrive.
- Ms. Beaton’s Book of Household Management
Summertime is always full of family and friends, so why not surprise them by having tea alfresco?
Just recently, my friend asked me to help her organize a small tea party in her [...]
I have come up with a concept. It isn’t unique or even entirely original, but it is certainly bold. And why not be bold? Don’t a lot of great things happen that way? I’ve decided to promote an annual worldwide event to honor Camellia sinensis and all those who work so hard to bring this [...]
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea!
How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
- William Gladstone, British Prime Minister (1809-1898)
We all like to be pampered or made to feel special, such as when a neighbor brings by some baked cookies, a friend treats us to a [...]
I’m always delighted to see continuing research supporting the profound health benefits derived from drinking green tea. A google alert about an article from Cancer News Today left me quite excited, only to see that I was being sent to WebMD for the story. I can’t say I’m a huge fan of WebMD, but the [...]
