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China's Teas: Special Olympics Edition
By William I. Lengeman III All eyes - or at the very least, hundreds of millions of them - have been turned toward China lately, as it plays host to the 2008 Olympic Games. Which makes this as good a ...
How Much Caffeine is in Tea?
By William I. Lengeman III One of the side benefits of tea, for many drinkers, is that it contains caffeine. Consumed in moderation, caffeine is generally considered to be a safe way to get a little b...
Health Benefits of Tea: Can Tea Help With Hangovers?
By William I. Lengeman III If you've ever consumed a beverage with more of a kick than tea (or a mix of the two), there's a chance that you've fallen victim to veisalgia, the age-old complaint more co...
Book Review - The Spirit of Tea
By William I. Lengeman III The Spirit of Tea By Frank Hadley Murphy Sherman Asher Publishing With the increasing popularity of tea in recent years - particularly specialty tea - has come a correspond...
Tea Trivia: Strange, Weird and Wonderful Stuff
By William I. Lengeman III A few oddments from the Tea Miscellany file, to be mused over - perhaps - while drinking a cup of tea. Tea Town 1 Not that you were wondering, but there is a town called Te...
More of the Tea in China: A Look at Some Other Popular Chinese Teas
By William I. Lengeman III All the tea in China, as noted in a previous article at the Twinings Tea Blog, is a term that covers quite a lot of territory. That article took a look at the black teas (wh...
Save the Tea: Tea Storage 101
By William I. Lengeman III There are several factors that contribute to a good cup of tea, but this can be a moot point if you haven't gone to the trouble of storing your tea properly. Tea is a somewh...
Twinings Weekly Blog Report: Anxi Oolongs; The Benefits of Tulsi Tea; Perspectives on Storing and Aging Pu'er Teas; Tea on the Train in China
By William I. Lengeman III This is a selection of recent popular blog articles from the Twinings Tea Blog, where you will find the best tea blogs by tea lovers from around the world. Anxi Oolongs As ...
Tea Blog Spotlight
By William I. Lengeman III With the increasing popularity of tea in recent years - particularly specialty tea - has come a corresponding increase in the number of tea bloggers who have set out to writ...
Types of Tea: Poo Poo Puerh
By William I. Lengeman III As noted in this recent overview at the Twinings Tea Blog, puerh - a type of Chinese tea produced in Yunnan province - is becoming more popular nowadays with tea enthusiasts...
Iced Tea Options are Limited Only by Imagination
By William I. Lengeman III A recent article at the Twinings Tea Blog marked the onset of iced tea season, focusing mainly on the background, origins and history of this warm weather favorite. Which is...
Types of Tea: Yellow Tea
By William I. Lengeman III As mentioned previously in these pages, there are, for all intents and purposes, five major categories of tea manufactured from the Camellia sinensis plant. While black and ...
Twinings Weekly Blog Report: Gong Fu Tea; Dandelion Tea & Sassafras Tea; Drinking Matcha; Yunnan Pu'er
by William I. Lengeman III This is a selection of recent popular blog articles from the Twinings Tea Blog, where you will find the best tea blogs by tea lovers from around the world. Gong Fu Tea Looki...
Types of Tea: Collectors and Connoisseurs Covet China's Puerh Tea
By William I. Lengeman III As noted in these pages previously, there are essentially five major types of tea derived from the Camellia sinensis plant - black, green, white, oolong and puerh. In the We...
Twinings Weekly Blog Report: Different Aging for Different Oolongs; Iced Phoenix Oolong Tea; Dragonwell Match Up; Pu-erh Tea: An Introduction
By William I. Lengeman III This is a selection of recent popular blog articles from the Twinings Tea Blog, where you will find the best tea blogs by tea lovers from around the world. Different Aging ...
Oolong: Chinese and Taiwanese Teas are Among the World's Most Prized
By William I. Lengeman III Most tea experts and enthusiasts will probably agree that there are essentially five main categories of tea, all of which come from the same plant - Camellia sinensis. They ...
All In This Tea Takes Viewers Inside the World of Chinese Tea
By William I. Lengeman III There's something about the taste of a truly fine tea that can inspire passion in the person tasting it. In some cases that passion can become so intense that it borders on ...
The Leaf Magazine Offers Steeping After Steeping of Tea Wisdom
By William I. Lengeman III As noted in a recent article here at the Twinings Tea Blog, there are a number of worthwhile tea magazines currently in circulation. But until recently, it's probably safe t...
Cha Dao Blog Examines the Joys, Bewilderments, and Mysteries of Tea
By William I. Lengeman III For some insight into the ambitions of the Cha Dao blog contributors, you could start with their own description of the site, Dedicated to discussion and appreciation of te...
Types of Tea: White Tea
By William I. Lengeman III Of the five major types of tea - black, green, oolong, puerh and white - it's the last two that are probably the least well known to tea drinkers in North America. Of these,...
Some of the Tea in China: A Brief Overview of Popular Chinese Teas
By William I. Lengeman III All the tea in China - as the expression suggests, there's quite a lot of it. While there's no way to encompass China's many varieties of tea in one short article, it is pos...
Tea for the YouTube Crowd: Tea Videos
By William I. Lengeman III YouTube - perhaps you've heard of it. Or to put it another way, how can you not have heard of it? While most visitors to YouTube and other popular viral video sites are seek...
Tea Leaf 101 - A Brief Overview of Tea Types
By William I. Lengeman III No one can say with any certainty exactly how many varieties of tea there are. By some accounts the number runs into the thousands. The number of plants from which tea - in ...
Getting the Most Out of Your Tea With Multiple Infusions
By William I. Lengeman III How do you make a cup of tea? The details may vary, but in general the fundamentals of the process consist of heating water, pouring it over a teabag or loose leaf tea and s...
Twinings Weekly Blog Report: Hidden Treasure; 1950s Tea Party Films; Tea Tourism - Motivated By An Interest In The History, Traditions, and Consumption of Tea; Drinking Good Tea and Using Good Pots
By William I. Lengeman III This is a selection of recent popular blog articles from the Twinings Tea Blog, where you will find the best tea blogs from tea lovers from around the world. Hidden Treasure...
