Author: Peter GW Keen

A Beginner’s Guide to Assam Teas

June 9, 2017

If your core taste preference is for strong black teas, Assam is a good starting point for exploration. It is the largest single tea producing region in the world and a core of the British style of tea, which... ... READ MORE

How tea helped in the fight for women’s rights!

Peter GW Keen .

May 24, 2017

Tearooms are romantically portrayed as cozy and pleasant places to relax and enjoy teas with cakes, biscuits and sandwiches. Their mythology is reinforced through evocations of scones and clotted cream. Hidden behind the Olde Worlde facade is a darker... ... READ MORE

Would you like some sugar in your tea? Or a little tea in your sugar?

Peter GW Keen .

May 17, 2017

Here’s a simple thought exercise. Imagine a standard cup of fresh brewed tea, with a sugar bowl beside it. Pick up the spoon and start adding sugar. One spoonful, two, three, four, five. Don’t stop. Six, seven, eight, nine,... ... READ MORE

From history, a long and complicated relationship with tea

Peter GW Keen .

May 5, 2017

Tea has had a pervasive impact on almost all areas of society for almost four hundred years in the West and somewhere between two and three millennia in Asia. It has been a consequential and even pivotal factor in... ... READ MORE

Irish tea, history and elevenish

Peter GW Keen .

April 29, 2017

Ireland is not generally thought of as emblematic of tea. But it stands out as, first, having the highest per capita consumption in the world, along with Turkey and way ahead of England. It also developed the most distinctive... ... READ MORE

Adam’s Peak: Higher and higher, better and better

Peter GW Keen .

April 15, 2017

Elite Artisan tea producers maintain many advantages over the large Agribusiness lowland farms that make commodity machine-processed ingredients for bags, ready-to-drink and iced teas. These start with the old cliché about real estate prices being set by Location, Location,... ... READ MORE

At a fast clip: Shipping tea from China

Peter GW Keen .

April 7, 2017

Just 13,999 miles to go. There in six more months You need just one number to explain both how complex tea shipping is and how ship design evolved to handle it: 20,000. That’s the distance in kilometers (14,000 miles)... ... READ MORE

The Beginner’s Guide to Choosing a Darjeeling

Peter GW Keen .

March 18, 2017

There is no typical Darjeeling. The teas are marked by variety, range in price from single to triple digit dollar tags, and have increasingly different leaf characteristics and resulting subtleties in flavor and aroma. That makes it difficult for... ... READ MORE

How tea made water safe

Peter GW Keen .

March 1, 2017

When you think of tea, it’s as dried leaves that need water to brew in. In many regards, the history of tea was the other way round. Water needed tea to turn it from killer scourge to healthy hydration.... ... READ MORE

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A Beginner’s Guide to Assam Teas

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Would you like some sugar in your tea? Or a little tea in your sugar?

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