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…
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…
Many tea lovers are cat owners or are owned by cats. A significant number of them associate tea, especially green tea, with health. It’s natural for them to…
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:…
It took a century to turn the tea bowl into the tea cup. In China and Japan, tea had always been served in a small dish, without an…
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,…
Earl Grey… Ah, the myths, the marketing, the lofty names and the mystery. The mystery is that there is no way to tell from the name and packaging…
No one example captures how deeply tea drinking was embedded in the fabric of British everyday life than the decision of the government in 1942 to buy…