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Is Singing Stone Technology Too Good To Be True?

September 7, 2009

I’ve seen a few sites from China about muyustone, and the products look the same or similar – tea cups, tea glasses, teapots and other objects that make use of this particular jade.  It interests me and I’m wondering if anyone in Vancouver or Richmond carries these products. The sites I’ve looked at are: http://www.muyustone.net/en/ [...]

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Paul Muldoon and Stephen Colbert read TEA

June 19, 2009

Poet Paul Muldoon and Stephen Colbert read his poem “Tea” on the Colbert Report last night, making it the number one poem in America. In Canada you can see it here. In US it is here.

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Tea Ceremony – a Time for Self-Reflection

May 19, 2009

When I was super-busy I used to nurture a fantasy of learning the tea ceremony, and that it would somehow give me more time in my life. I was inspired to read this great article in the Wall Street Journal on Tea for Today: Read full article here. Here’s a short excerpt: The tea ceremony [...]

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Make Tea the George Orwell Way

April 12, 2009

1984 ways to serve tea? Not really! but in 1946, Orwell wrote this classic article for the Evening Standard -  “A Nice Cup of Tea”, excerpt below: When I look through my own recipe for the perfect cup of tea, I find no fewer than 11 outstanding points. On perhaps two of them there would [...]

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Tibetan Tea In Edmonton

March 16, 2009

Visiting Lama Kaldan (actually Geshe Kaldan) was always an experience of Tibet. Having left Tibet in 1959 during the Chinese invasion, Geshe Kaldan spent many years in India before coming to Canada and settling for a time in Edmonton, where we met. He offered Tibetan tea at his home, served out of a big tall [...]

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Poor Conditions for Kenyan Tea Pickers

March 3, 2009

I just read this report from Plus News Global about the risk of HIV with tea pickers in Kenya. As our enjoyment of tea and its pleasures also includes an accountability, check out this informative article : KENYA: Tough working conditions and risky sex on tea plantations KERICHO, 3 March 2009 (PlusNews) – Underpaid and [...]

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Cafe Hafa in Tangiers

February 26, 2009

Here’s video of a tea place that has fascinated travellers, artists and intelligensia since 1921: Cafe Hafa in Morocco. Stupendous view, incredible location, ubiquitous mint tea.

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Lapsang Souchong: Campfire in a Cup!

February 23, 2009

The well documented smoky flavour of Lapsang Souchong makes this tea a rare acquired taste, one I am beginning to pick up. This afternoon, I needed a break after working on the computer all day. What better way to completely leave the digital life behind than to go into the realm of the senses offered [...]

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4 lbs. of Tea for One Week

February 16, 2009

A friend read recently that Freya Stark, as she set out into the Hadhramaut in whatever year- 1935?- was provisioned by a local patriarch with 4 lbs. of tea for one week. 4 live fowls too, among other things. This strikes me as an awful lot of tea to take along. It cannot only have [...]

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Rooibos – Good for You, Good for Africa

February 15, 2009

Liz Bandelin, President of Nu-Tea, stopped by on her way to this weekend’s  The Victoria Tea Festival where she’s speaking on Rooibos – Good for You, Good for Africa. She’s a fountain of amazing information on all things Rooibos, and all the good things that this tea can do for our health. We had a [...]

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