TreePeople, Tea and You

******* As you may have noticed, my tea of choice for TeaHawk.com is from the Art of Tea. Mainly because their teas are Really So Fine. But there’s also this: (This Ad-looking thing, I put here because it’s a part-charity ad, not an ad ad) When you buy one of their tea blends in a [...]

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Bad News Tuesday

It is Tuesday! Rains falls. Like tea. Cold, unbrewed Tea. And I have ill tidings of bad joy from all over the world: *** FIRST, the prices of tea are shooting up.  Up! Not heroin, they are becoming more expensive. Partially it’s the weather. And macroeconomic indicators. Heck, I don’t know, read this report from [...]

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A Trio for You

Three gems for Friday: first, tea has a long history in Korea. But it tends to get overshadowed in foreigners’ minds by the two tea giants on the sides, China and Japan. So the JoongAng Daily newspaper has a fine history of tea in Korea. Why? To mark the occasion of a visit to Jeju [...]

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Tea & Love in SE Asia

I’m a sucker for travel photography. So this set of pics from George Town in Malaysia, up on the island of Penang, has won me over. It’s not a big set, but photographer Derrick Chang is a pro. And I’ve made it there, so there’s a tinge of delicious nostalgia and regret to the images. [...]

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I’m Moving to Matcha. No, really

Or maybe not really BUT I did see this trolling the tea flotsam & jetsam that winds up in my inbox: What? A town named “Matcha?” Where all the day long I can buzz with caffeine & L-theanine-induced buzzing while rollicking in antioxidant goodness? Madness I say. Yet a popular stalking website confirms it: Call [...]

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UnCuddly Teas

Over at the Raindrops on Kittens blog, Sinead has a post entitled “Some Teas are Cuddlier than Others.” It opens up: Up until last summer the cuddliest tea that I knew was milky sugary black tea. It is what you give people who are sick or in shock. It’s what you want when it’s cold [...]

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A Minty Tea Recipe for the Derby

The Kentucky Derby is upon us… the two minutes when the nation watches horses run with tiny guides on their backs. Fortunes are lost… or lost. I mean, I’m 50 bucks down on the horses for my career. Best to drown my sorrows in drink! Usually Derbyites quaff the venerable “Mint Julep” under their satellite [...]

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A Quiet Walk in Japanese Tea Fields

I’m having one of those days… …when I’m feeling pretty stuck in this, that and the other… …and I hear through the grapevine an old friend’s going to Japan for a month, oh, I want to accompany her… …and yet I’m stuck here. At least I can get away with this little video of the [...]

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