The question is simple: Does drinking green tea directly create weight loss? The scientific answer is simple, too: No. There is no scientific evidence whatsoever, only hopeful hints.…
To make smart choices about tea, you need some heuristics: simple rules of thumb that give you a good enough answer most of the time. A heuristic may…
Nepal is probably not on your list of teas to buy but it should be. It offers some of the best bargains on the market: teas of growing…
To understand the social history and cultures of tea in Britain, you just need these two pictures: the cucumber sandwich and the bacon sarnie. The cucumber nibble is…
Almost every great tea is associated with a mountain region. Examples are rock oolongs like Big Red Robe and Iron Goddess of Mercy from Wuyi (China), High Mountain…
Purists beware: tea has not always been about single origin leaves. Outside, the main square of Krakow bustled with tourists although the heat of the day had become…
Your humble author – well, author at least – sits here at his keyboard writing what is for a Brit, semi-Americanized though he may be, a painful acknowledgement:…
The country with the highest per capita tea consumption is not England, China or India. It’s Turkey, where the average is over 3,000 cups per person per year,…