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What Color Tea Would You Like – Milky or Classic British?
UK design outfit Suck has created color coded tea and coffee mugs that: help you mix your favourite brew to just-how-you-like-it by matching the colour guide on the inside. [link] An interesting...
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Thank You For The Music
So we just sponsored our first (sold out, I might add!) concert. I may be biased, but kudos to Mike, Nick, Alex, Yasu and Shirzad for putting on what can only be described as an electrifying...
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A Thoughtful Teapot
I wrote about Joey’s awesome Sorapot concept back in January. Well, good things happen to good people for good reason. The Sorapot was just featured in Forbes. Congratulations Joey! Here’s to a bright...
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NBC Segments on Green Tea
[Note: The image above is not a link. Links to videos on MSN video are provided below] We were told a while back that green tea was good for us. Well, is it? NBC’s news divisions attempt to...
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An Old Letter from Burma
In light of all the news coming in from Myanmar, I thought it apt to share this piece, written by imprisoned Nobel laureate and pro-democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, way back in 1996. Letter from...
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Trendspotting Your Way to a Happier Morning
So you finally get yourself out of bed after hitting the snooze button for the seventeenth time (it would have been eighteen, had your spouse not kicked you in the shin). Then, assuming you haven’t...
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September Link Roundup
We didn’t write a whole lot in September (or August for that matter), but we did read quite a bit. Here are some of our favorites: 1. Chow put together an interesting series of video clips with James...
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Those Counterintuitive Kids and Their Funky New Age Brews
[Public Flickr photo courtesy user moosh] Asia is bemoaning the loss of the traditional tea ceremony. With good reason too, as this recent Reuters report points out. From Beijing to Tokyo, Seoul, Hong...
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Who Wants to Be a Tea Taster?
If you’ve ever wanted to become a tea taster, you could probably learn a thing or two from Atanoo Baroowa. Mr. Baroowa sits down with us to discuss tasting, auctions and a whole lot more.
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October Link Roundup
5 articles that caught my eye in October: How to make a chamomile vinaigrette. If you’re interested in cooking with tea, here are five more ways. An impressive list of tea titles shared by Nigel...
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Monday Funnies
Here’s a dose of tea humor from The Onion to get the work week off to the right start. I like to do the crossword puzzle while I have my tea,” said Baumer, making it easy to imagine him wearing a...
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The Cup is Half Full for Indian Tea
The Champagne of Tea. This catchy moniker has long been used to describe Darjeeling’s cachet in the tea world. However, it is becoming abundantly clear that a lot more than an attractive slogan is...
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Juice it Up People!
Scientists have discovered that mixing green tea with other substances, such as citrus juices, vitamin C and even soy milk and rice milk, increases the amount of the antioxidants that can be absorbed...
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Tea Garden Bungalows: January
I recently received some beautiful scanned images that show artist renditions of tea garden bungalows in Assam. They’re part of a calendar, so I thought I’d start by posting this one from January....
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Driving 15,000 km For Tea In A London Taxi
About a year ago, I blogged about the ambitious Tracing Tea project, which aimed to celebrate the 350th anniversary of tea’s introduction to Britain. Well, I figured I would check on their progress...
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Visualizing The Simple Leaf
I had loads of fun this morning playing with a tool called Wordle. Paste in any text you want, or point to an RSS feed, and Wordle generates gorgeous visualizations of the most frequently occuring...
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Are The Health Benefits of Tea Exaggerated?
One of my pet peeves is the barrage of advertisements I see on the web for “Amazing Fat Loss Oolong Tea” or “How I Lost 55 lbs With Oolong” or, the most egregious: “Drop 3 Clothes Sizes Fast And Easy!...
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All In This Tea
Filmmakers Gina Leibrecht and Les Blank made “All In This Tea” in 2007 to showcase the “hidden world of tea” in remote parts of China. Lucky New Yorkers will get to see a screening of it at the Film...
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A Tragic Loss
I awoke early on Friday morning with a text message from my dad that said, simply: “RIP Madan Tamang”. Uncle Madan and his wife Rita had been our guests in Calcutta only a few days earlier, doing...
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