These are the first of a handful of tea-related photographs that don’t fit with any written articles. Water Steam Wet with Puer An Assemblage of Teaware Tea and Wine Pairing Possibly Related Posts: 恭喜發財 – Happy Year of the Water Dragon! Pure Pu’er Chado: The Way of Tea, at ArtXchange ATB Blog Carnival: AdagioTeas’ “Roots [...]
The UK’s Guild of Fine Food just announced its 2010 Great Taste Awards, and eight of the teas sold by Canton Tea Company were awarded gold star ratings. Bai Lin Gong Fu Black Tea (pictured in the accompanying photograph) received a three star gold – the highest award in its class, and a rating awarded [...]
While I am extremely strict about using only teawares that come from the same culture as the tea I am drinking, I have a soft spot for the misfits, anomalies and enigmas of the world, and also objects that signify an intersection of cultures. The piece of teaware in the accompanying photographs is one of [...]
After I purchased my Chou Zhou stove from Tea Habitat several months ago the biggest obstacle I faced in learning to use it for tea was finding appropriate charcoal. As Imen of Tea Habitat wrote in this article on the Tea Obsession blog, good charcoal has been hard to get in the United States for [...]
There is good reason why royalty was associated with the finer things in life. Kings and government meant taxes, and if gold couldn’t be had, your locality paid in other forms. If your locality was recognized for horses, you worked to contribute your best horses as a form of tax. The emperors of China were [...]
This is my contribution to the first in a series of tea blog carnivals sponsored by the Association of Tea Bloggers, the theme of which is, “What is your favorite piece of teaware, and why?” While it was a bit of a challenge to choose just one item of tea ware among so many that [...]
Market researchers continue to predict the continued rise of tea consumption in the US. Of course, this will mean that a wider audience will come to experience teas, but there are few predictions about the depth of those experiences. In order to more fully appreciate the hundreds of teas available, here are 10 that will [...]
There are tea mascots that are entirely charming and wonderful. Of course I am partial to my wonderful bat, who I decided to name Xingfu (幸福), and who sits at the tea table during nearly every session of Gongfu Cha, receiving frequent doses of tea and water over his shiny clay body. But there are [...]
Rather than getting sucked into the obsessive virtual silliness of fake agriculture in FarmVille on FaceBook, perhaps you should consider contributing to efforts that result in actual, living real trees instead. Adagio Teas has instituted a program connected to Earth Day 2010 that will plant tea trees in three of the major regions that produce [...]
After quite a bit of online searching for olive pit and other types of charcoal to use in my Chou Zhou tea stove, I finally stumbled upon a source locally for good, affordable charcoal. Pal-Do World is a chain of Korean markets, three of which are in this general area. They carry boxes of SaengGeo [...]
