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Nepal: Innovation in the high Himalayas

August 17, 2016

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 quality at an excellent price. Guaranse and Ilam have become premium... ... READ MORE

Tea and herbs: For you, fine. For your cat, never

PETER GW KEEN .

July 26, 2016

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 then want to apply their own enjoyment and concern for well-being... ... READ MORE

Pottering with Clay

ADITI DE .

July 22, 2016

His gnarled hands rivet my gaze. Bronzed as the good earth, rope-veined and thick-knuckled, they scoop clay from a damp gunny-sack, creating a mound on a wooden potter’s wheel. A rough pole spins it to life. The clay morphs... ... READ MORE

Nostalgia in a Spray

PRACHI SIBAL .

July 8, 2016

Have you ever been surprised by a whiff of something that brings back a memory, strongly, sharply? If you could bottle memories, to just be reminded of a time or place or person, what would you choose? Would you... ... READ MORE

Tea in Islamic cultures

PETER GW KEEN .

July 7, 2016

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, nine a day. Morocco is in second place, at five, followed... ... READ MORE

My 20s in Books

ARAVINDA ANANTHARAMAN .

July 1, 2016

My coming-of-age book was incidental. It was not a classic. Not Catcher in the Rye or To Kill a Mocking Bird. I ended my teens with Mario Puzo’s Fools Die. I found it in my dad’s collection one bored... ... READ MORE

Conversations on Tea in New York City

Kausshal .

June 18, 2016

I stepped out of JFK airport and got into a cab. It was a longish drive to the hotel and sure enough, the driver and I got talking. “Are you on business or vacation,” he asked. I started... ... READ MORE

Roll Britannia: the early history of machinery in tea making

PETER GW KEEN .

June 14, 2016

Britannia – apart from being a grandiose term for the United Kingdom, as in Britannia Rules the Waves – is a trade name for the line of machinery created in the 1870s by William Jackson, a young inventor. His... ... READ MORE

Rhapsody on Rails

PREETAM KOILPILLAI .

June 11, 2016

Preetam Koilpillai talks about train tracks and performs extracts from George Gershwin’s iconic piece, “Rhapsody in Blue”. +3 ... READ MORE

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