People have been cooking with tea for centuries, but there has been a huge resurgence of interest in this ancient practice in just the last decade. Matcha tea is an incredible addition to any kitchen.… Read More
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There Is a Connection: Tea and Gorgeous Skin
Amid all the talk about tea and its health benefits, it’s easy to overlook a modern trend among aestheticians and other skin care professionals. More salons and spas are using tea as an ingredient in… Read More
One for the Road: Buddhist Art, Cultural Sites and Tourist Destinations around the World
Are you thinking about visiting the most famous Buddha statues on earth? Do your daydreams drift to mountain paths that lead to ancient caves packed with Buddhist art and relics? If so, you are not… Read More
Matcha Tea Price Report: How to Make Sure You Don’t Pay Too Much
Matcha tea is a hot selling item in retail and online stores. That’s why buyers need to do plenty of comparison shopping before forking over money to anonymous vendors. The quality of matcha tea varies… Read More
Five O’Clock Post: Perfect British Tea, the Easy Way
In the eyes of the non-British world, perhaps there is no other single product that is so closely identified with British people as tea. People in many other nations drink more tea than Brits do,… Read More
Hot Off the Press: 5 Matcha Tea Books To Love
Matcha tea and other green teas are popular subjects for culinary writers these days. It seems as though each passing week sees another tea-related book working its way up the best-seller list. Maybe all the… Read More
How to Rule the World: Caffeine in Energy Drinks, Coffee and Tea
So-called “energy” beverages have been one of the stars of the retail drink market for at least two decades now, even as tea and coffee make huge inroads into a territory that is fraught with… Read More
Compassion on Your Plate: Vegetarian and Vegan Diets
In Western cultures, vegetarians and vegans have been around for decades, if in small numbers. But since the “health food” boom in the middle of the last century, there has been a large increase in… Read More
Remote, Mysterious, Beautiful: Sri Lanka & its Tea
Residents of Sri Lanka are no strangers to tea and tea culture. The island that used to be called Ceylon is home to one of the largest tea industries on earth. Some of their tea… Read More
On the Menu: A Coffee and Tea Lexicon
Are you faced with caffeinated confusion when perusing the menus at coffee shops and tea bars? Do you drown in terminology that seems to be an odd mixture of some unknown foreign language and what… Read More