There’s a hoary adage that money doesn’t grow on trees. With tea, it really does, on just a single type of plant, the Camellia sinensis. Left in its…
At one level, the association of Buddhism and tea seems natural and obvious. The ethos and practices of its many schools and their impact on modern modes of…
Pesticides, pollution and environmental damage have to be at the very least a background concern for tea drinkers: What do you need to know to make sure that…
How many times have you made the very same tea as yesterday, in the same amount and with the same brewing time and temperature, but it’s not quite…
Here’s a short summary of the introduction of tea to Europe. You can surely guess which country it refers to: the first nation whose ships brought tea from…
Which of the great writers is most associated with tea? Jane Austen is a leading candidate. She epitomizes the English tradition of tea as social, elegant and refined.…
The simplest way to understand what produces the differences among teas is through a short semi-science tutorial: Tea as a chemistry lab. The leaf is anything but inert.…
There’s a straight-faced line in a scientific report that innovation in tea making in Japan has a fairly standard timetable: every 400 years. Tea growing is a conservative…