British Tea Culture, we all know it exists, we all know it’s important, but what exactly does it mean? I set out to figure this out by interviewing over 110 people from the United Kingdom about their tea habits. I wanted to see what makes their tea culture unique across all social classes. I deliberately did [...]
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** Note: Chicago Tea Garden has closed. ** The Chicago tea scene is blowing up. If you are visiting Chicago and are super into tea, please make it a point to visit these Chicago tea shops: Todd and Holland (Forest Park) - http://www.todd-holland.com/ Adagio (State Street, Naperville, Old Orchard) - http://www.adagio.com/stores/ TeaGschwendner (River North) - http://www.teagschwendner.com/US/en/Locations.TG Madame Zuzu’s [...]
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Muscatel is an elusive taste found in some Darjeeling teas, most likely second flush teas. It is very hard to describe the taste in words, but it is easy to recognize the taste once you are familiar with it. James Norwood Pratt goes as far as saying that in tea, muscatel “denotes a unique muscat-like [...]
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Rather summer cleaning. I just need to get rid of some of my yixing sets. Looking for a starter yixing or an addition to your collection, check these out. Prices start at $5.00. Shipping is flat $14.95 because I’m going to wrap the living daylights out of each piece and put them in a large [...]
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Or any culture for that matter. I was reading a translation by MarshalN of a Chinese blog post about snobbery in the tea world and it kind of went along with my thinking of late about tea culture here in America, where it seems like there are so many different groups with differing opinions and ideas [...]
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Had a great tea tasting for my company, Chicago Tea Garden in January. If you live in the Chicago area and would like to attend a tasting, please signup here. Thanks to Flickr user faraocious for taking these awesome photos! view the whole set by foraocious here.
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Someone recently asked me how many tea companies exist right now that have made a commitment to only sell pure tea. I didn’t have an answer, so I started searching, and with the help of my friends on Twitter and Reddit, I came up with the following list. The rules for the list: the tea [...]
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As children, we were indoctrinated with the idea that tea was a part of a tea party, an activity that girls took part in during childhood with friends, family, and stuffed animals. For many, tea was something given to us by our mothers when we were sick, or a drink consumed by our grandmothers during [...]
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Smashing Pumpkins frontman, Billy Corgan announced today via his twitter account (@Billy) that he has plans to open a tea house on Chicago’s North Shore. Billy Corgan isn’t the first well known musician to jump into the tea business, electronic musician Moby opened a tea shop called “teany” in New York city in 2002. The [...]
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Tuocha or “dome-shaped bowl tea” is a compressed tea, usually made of pu-erh. The shape resembles a bird’s nest and tuocha range in weight from 3g(seen above) up to 3kg or more. Tuocha are convex in order to help the tea dry out after processing. “The name for tuocha is believed to have originated from the round, top-like [...]
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