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Posts Tagged ‘tea’
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
The Chinese were the first Tea drinking people in the world, from where tea was exported all over the world, consequently becoming one of the most popular beverages. It is said that tea was accidentally discovered by Emperor Shen Nung (also known as Shennong, Yan Emperor or “Emperor of the five grains”) over 5,000 years [...]
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Tags: Chinese, holiday, Longjing, plantation, tea, tea estate
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
If is an often asked question; what is the best time to drink tea? And while there is a simple single answer to that, ‘Anytime!’ as many tea lovers would say, this is not a complete answer. Tea has several health giving properties, and for the body to be able to utilize these to the [...]
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Tags: caffeine, Chinese, Health, iced tea, meals, morning, tea
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
As we have connoisseurs of wine, so we have connoisseurs of tea, and tea tasting is as much an art as wine tasting ever was. As in wine tasting, there are many aspects to tea tasting, the color, the aroma, the actual flavor and taste, etc. Also like wine tasting, tea tasting involves a lot [...]
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Tags: aroma, art, brew, look, pungency, smell, taste, tasting, tea, touch
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Monday, August 31st, 2009
Tea Accessories are not just something that you need think of investing in for a formal tea party or a tea ceremony of the kind that the Japanese are so famous for. If you enjoy your tea and value the time you set aside for your favourite beverage, then you may also think of getting [...]
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Tags: accessories, canister, creamer, cup, experience, infuser, kettle, mug, storage box, tea, tea caddy, teapot, tray
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Recent research has indicated that if you love your chilled glass of iced tea, you are probably better off than those who like their tea scalding hot. Very hot beverages such as tea or coffee have now been linked with cancer which should be another reason to steep rather than boil your tea and to [...]
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Tags: cancer, esophagus, Health, hot tea, iced tea, research, tea, throat. warm, tumor
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
Did you know that in almost all languages, the word for tea is variant of either ‘tea’ or ‘Chai’? So basically, if you travel to pretty much any corner of the world, you can reasonably ask for a cup of tea, even if you cannot ask for the bathroom!
Etymology
The origin of the words used to [...]
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Tags: chai, culture, cuppa, dialects, languages, tea
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
As reported by the Telegraph, scientists have now found that high doses of a chemical found in the drink could kill cancer cells and reduce symptoms of the disease of blood cancer or leukemia. Scientists have long been examining the fact that there is a lower incidence of cancer among those societies that consume more green tea.
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Tags: cancer, green tea, Health, iced tea, leukemia, tea
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Now everyone says that Oolong tea helps you lose weight (some claim it can help you lose up to 2 lbs a week) and promotes good health; is this the truth? And if so how can tea help you lose weight?
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Tags: benefits, Health, lose weight, oolong tea, rejuvenation, tea, weight loss
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
When you talk about all the different types of tea, for the uninitiated, terms such as green tea, white tea, black tea and oolong tea could be confusing to say the least! So what exactly is the difference among all these?
Are there different kinds of plants that give us the different kinds of teas?
Not quite; [...]
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Tags: benefit, black, chamomile, fermentation, Health, oolong, oxidization, plant, tea, white
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