Chinese Tea: A Cultural History and drinking Guide by Liu Tong
The Chinese author Liu Tong focuses on chinese teas and history of tea from its early buds in China four to five thousand years ago.
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The East India Company: Golden Tips of Ceylon White Tea No 58
Golden tips tea is a rare tea (only 8kg picked every year!) grown at altitude of 4000 metres near Adams peak in Sri Lanka. They get their name from the reddish variety of the tea plant and also because golden scissors are used to pick the buds in the morning before they unfurl in the heat of the sun.
Jugetsudo: seaweed and tea transplanting Japanese health from Tokyo to Paris
Jugetsudo was founded by the Maruyama family, that has been originally sourcing best seaweed in Japan since late 19th century. Its location at the famous Tsukiji Chuo-ku fish market in Tokyo, did […]
The Etiquette of an English Tea: Beryl Peters
This pocketbook size amusing book is handy for travelers eager to entertain themselves during a short journey with tales of traditional English tea customs that emerged over the centuries of the tea’s love affair with Britain.
Japanese tea house in the heart of Monaco
Treasured inside the Japanese garden, built as a homage to the late Princess Grace of Monaco, and baptised as “The Garden of Grace” after her, the Japanese tea house
The East India Company: Silver Cloud No 96 white tea from Oodoowera Estate in Ceylon
Silver Cloud no 96 is a white tea from Oodoowera Estate in Ceylon where “the heavens touch the Earth“. Kept tender by the gentle mists which shroud the mountain, Silver Cloud […]
The East India Company: The Staunton Earl Grey & chocolate pairing
Blend of black teas from India and Sri Lanka, Natural Bergamot & Neroli (Orange blossom) oils. Whilst British Prime Minister Charles Grey popularised the hot beverage – it was in fact […]
Tea That Is NOT Tea: infused botanicals for health, vitality and taste
The ongoing global pandemic opened our eyes to the importance of boosting our immunity. Yet the remedies include a wealth of sketchy promises that fog our well-intentioned minds. With a […]
Things Better Done Slowly: poetic Marais cafes and tea rooms
Poetry does not have to be written under your bed covers (well, sometimes I do that too) or in a rusty, with vintage posters laced bohemian poetic Marais hang out. […]
Fortune: tarot & symbolism of reading from tea leaves
There is a deep connection between tarot cards and tea leaves, fortune. Tarot became a popular entertainment, sparking up friends outings and house parties well before the Covid cut off […]