Browsing the blog archives for June, 2012

Color of tea cup

I love white color for tea cups.  You can see the natural hue of the tea.  I personally think that tea in a dark colored cup doesn’t look so delicious.  The cup’s color also has a significant impact to the impression of the taste. Th…

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Medicines containing flying squirrel poo could be heading to Australia – The Daily Telegraph

Medicines containing flying squirrel poo could be heading to AustraliaThe Daily Telegraph"I understand that people not accustomed to Chinese medicine will think it's funny and a lot of studies need to be done so that we can show why people sti…

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Exquisite cold sencha

Continuation from the previous entryMy method is basically cold-water brewing.  However, I use lukewarm water in the beginning to awaken the leaves and to help faster infusing.  The tea prepared with this method has much more profound flavor …

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Racism is hot-wired into human brain, US study indicates – The Daily Telegraph

Racism is hot-wired into human brain, US study indicatesThe Daily TelegraphThe finding comes from researchers in the US who pulled together results from 17 brain-imaging studies designed to tease out the brain circuitry of race, emotion and decision-ma…

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Tea Subreddit: A Tea Community on Reddit

Today I want to draw attention to an online tea community that is quite active, highly diverse, and has a continuous influx of tea newcomers. These factors combine to make it an excellent place for advancing tea culture online. This is the Tea Subred…

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Breaking news: Green tea extract fights obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes … – Food Consumer

Breaking news: Green tea extract fights obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes …Food ConsumerGreen tea (GT) consumption has been associated in observational studies with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease or heart disease and stroke, and metaboli…

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Taiwan in Yunnan

Someone recently gave me this box, containing 5 packs of 10g each of a tea that I’ve never heard of before. The tea is called Jibian Wulongcha, which literally means “Extreme border oolong tea”. Jibian, in this case, is a … Continue reading

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More Is Not Better: How To Balance Freshness and Turnover for Small Tea Companies

This page highlights a business mistake that I see dozens of small tea businesses, mainly small tea shops and tea houses, making. This is carrying too many teas. But beyond just recommending small companies to carry fewer teas, I also want to provide…

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Serenity on St. Simon’s Island Comes in All Forms! – Staugnews

Serenity on St. Simon's Island Comes in All Forms!StaugnewsThe highest in anti-oxidants, White Tea is also the lowest in caffeine, which makes this a very important tea to learn about. In fact, in China, a tea called, Lung Ching, is supposedly the …

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Green tea extract shows extensive health benefits for obese hypertensives … – NutraIngredients-usa.com

Green tea extract shows extensive health benefits for obese hypertensives …NutraIngredients-usa.comExtracts from green tea may lead to improvements in blood pressure, blood sugar levels and markers of inflammation, says a new study from Poland with o…

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