Or any culture for that matter. I was reading a translation by MarshalN of a Chinese blog post about snobbery in the tea world and it kind of went along with my thinking of late about tea culture here in America, where it seems like there are so many different groups with differing opinions and ideas [...]
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Had a great tea tasting for my company, Chicago Tea Garden in January. If you live in the Chicago area and would like to attend a tasting, please signup here. Thanks to Flickr user faraocious for taking these awesome photos! view the whole set by foraocious here.
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Someone recently asked me how many tea companies exist right now that have made a commitment to only sell pure tea. I didn’t have an answer, so I started searching, and with the help of my friends on Twitter and Reddit, I came up with the following list. The rules for the list: the tea [...]
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As children, we were indoctrinated with the idea that tea was a part of a tea party, an activity that girls took part in during childhood with friends, family, and stuffed animals. For many, tea was something given to us by our mothers when we were sick, or a drink consumed by our grandmothers during [...]
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Smashing Pumpkins frontman, Billy Corgan announced today via his twitter account (@Billy) that he has plans to open a tea house on Chicago’s North Shore. Billy Corgan isn’t the first well known musician to jump into the tea business, electronic musician Moby opened a tea shop called “teany” in New York city in 2002. The [...]
read more »UPDATE: Free Shipping on Tea until January, and the last day to order to have your order (in the USA) by Christmas, is December 16. I’m running a cyber monday special at my tea shop, Chicago Tea Garden. Check it out. Business has been quite busy, which is awesome, but it also explains my lack [...]
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Tuocha or “dome-shaped bowl tea” is a compressed tea, usually made of pu-erh. The shape resembles a bird’s nest and tuocha range in weight from 3g(seen above) up to 3kg or more. Tuocha are convex in order to help the tea dry out after processing. “The name for tuocha is believed to have originated from the round, top-like [...]
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A recap of last week’s tea related news: Green Tea Can Help Lower Cholesterol? NYT Breaks it Down for us: http://t.co/hsQgdIc Zealong’s tea eyes new markets: http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/5509462/Zealongs-tea-eyes-new-markets A lot of tea was grown in America: http://t.co/FMq7iKf Have you seen the new @Steepster Select? http://tea.fm/rlmJpt
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A recap of last week’s tea related news: Coffee, Tea Consumption Up: tea.fm/pWNAFd Technology boosts green tea production in Sri Lanka: http://t.co/Qxxd4X2 Hong Kong-style Milk Tea Competition: http://t.co/RmC1VyD Amazing Karmi Tea Canisters: http://t.co/9NNG662
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A recap of last week’s tea related news: Sydney Paper Calls Tea “Medicine in a Cup”: http://tea.fm/r8fSpP Nepal’s Himalayan Tea Growers Turn a New Leaf: http://tea.fm/oKVAv8 London Finds Peace Over Tea- https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=261568193854371 Stone Brewery Releases Japanese Green Tea IPA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvosvdWfmas&feature=youtu.be
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