Kenyan Tea workers went on strike from Feb 8 to Feb 12 — happily they have reached a resolution in the matter:
“The strike started after some workers were paid below the minimum recommended wage, George Nesbitt, director of Tea Warehouses Ltd., said by phone from Mombasa”
Read the whole thing here: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-17/kenya-tea-workers-strike-over-wages-disrupt-shipping-update1-.html
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The Malaysian Star posted quite a lengthy article on their fortnightly column “Nutri-Science” by Dr. Tee Siong — its a great summation of all of the tea health stories we’ve been hearing of late. I invite you to give it a read: http://thestar.com.my/health/story.asp?file=/2010/1/31/health/5568096&sec=health
Well isn’t this disheartening, a study by the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference found that many tea vendors in China are making their money selling “substandard” tea. Give this one a read: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/metro/2010-01/19/content_9341940.htm
how sad huh…. but where there is a way to “make” money there will be people out there ready to be dishonest. Thanks for reporting!!
via BBC [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/8428824.stm]:
Thieves have stolen 11 pallets containing tea from a lorry parked in a lay-by on the A1 in North Yorkshire.
The tea was taken on Monday night as the lorry was parked by the southbound carriageway near RAF Leeming. Officers said that despite the lorry being locked thieves cut its side curtain and took the pallets. They contained Tetley Tea products including Red Bush and Green Tea. North Yorkshire Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward.
Is there a follow up to this story yet? I’m interested to know if they knew what they were stealing or just stealing to steal!
You’re right, its not really tea. There’s no tea included. I found this curious product at the Ferry Building’s Saturday Farmers Market in San Francisco a few weeks ago. What you get for around $7.00 is 20 tea-bags filled with douglas fir tips. From the box: “this tea [tea? really?] is made with hand-gathered, sustainably-wild-harvested Douglas Fir Tips. Although nothing that comes from the wild can be certified organic, since this term applies only to farm-grown produce, our Douglas Fir is harvested in pristine wilderness that has never seen any chemicals and is probably more natural than the most organic of organic farms.” This brewed up a sweet, lemony, foresty liquor. I really felt as if I was drinking Christmas trees. I did not expect this to brew up sweet, but the sweetness was perfectly balanced with the taste of evergreen. Its a pretty cool holiday herbal. You can find this product online at Juniper Ridge’s web site: http://www.juniperridge.com
Wow, that sounds like a great tea, I’m going to get some. Thanks.
sooo tell us can you see it being added to tea?
I’ve tried the Douglas Fir tea! It’s like you say, sort of sweet, lemony, and refreshing. The only thing I don’t like about it is it makes my throat feel tight or clenched a little, like it’s puckering from the lemony flavor. Maybe it’s just me. Other than that I really like this “tea” a lot. 
The National Post has a great article called: “Get that tea out of its bag and into this meal” featuring three recipes that sound quite amazing:
Tea Smoked Chicken
Green Tea Shortbread
Hot Tea Toddy
Head on over to the original article to check these out: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theappetizer/archive/2009/11/14/bonnie-stern-get-that-tea-out-of-its-bag-and-into-this-meal.aspx
Have you ever used tea in a recipe? If so, feel free to share it here!
I’ve added a half-cup of strongly-brewed lapsang souchong to a few of my Cajun recipes with good results. It can add some nice smokey depth to a gumbo or jambalaya. In case of the gumbo I add it during the last simmering, and in jambalaya I use it to replace some of the water when cooking the rice.
Ooh, nice recipes. Thanks. I’m going to try the shortbread.
I wanted to add that using lapsang souchong in the liquid is a good way to add a smokey flavor to your foods like beans and collard greens without using meat.
I’ve been using Google Reader for about a year now. Its a powerful tool to use when the number of blogs you like to follow becomes daunting. I have put together a comprehensive tea “bundle.”
Click here to check it out: http://www.google.com/reader/bundle/user%2F15448957340603885414%2Fbundle%2FTea
Here is the list of blogs currently in this comprehensive tea bundle:
Nice collection! Many of them are new to me, and I was pleased to discover a link to Black Dragon Tea Bar, run by the man who first introduced me to traditional Chinese teas.
I bet a year ago there were 1/2 as many. Nice collection and thanks for sharing!
There has been a new trend in tea tasting events – online tea tastings. This may seem odd, but some of the best teas come from farmers with no access to tea-shops in the West, and that is where tea tastings are traditionally held. I think it is a great idea, I think it brings us all closer to the tea producers, cutting out the middle-men – thus giving us access to a wider variety of potentially better teas. In this way, we can all source tea, we don’t always have to let someone do the work for us – and this is the adventure of tea. Read more on 39Steeps: http://39steeps.blogspot.com/2009/10/lochan-tea-tasting-event.html
I don’t think it sounds odd at all. One thing I’ve wanted very much is to connect with tea farmers in Yunnan China. There would need to be some representative since the ethnic farmers wouldn’t easily communicate in English. But there are plenty of people in Yunnan who might want to do this, and have the ability. To be able to source all kinds of Puerh without a Western store, well, those connections would be priceless. –Teaternity
This is good news to all of us: “Researchers have reviewed new findings on the possible health benefits of tea. Now, the caffeine in tea known as theanine is linked to improve human attention and focus.” (read the rest…)
There is both caffeine and theanine in tea. Theanine is somewhat of a buffering agent in tea. The coffee jitters are largely because there is no theanine in coffee. Theanine alone without the other organic compounds in tea is not as effective as the real tea steeped properly.
[...] 17, 2010 Just found this article through World of Tea and wanted to pass it on. the Kenya tea strike that has been in effect since February 8th. it was [...]