Archive for the 'Tea' Category
Tea’s amazing history
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Who knew tea’s history was so exciting? Robert Fortune stole the secret of tea.
The great tea robbery: How our cuppa wouldn’t exist if an amazing Victorian hadn’t stolen the secret from China’s warlords | Mail Online reports:
“Green tea and black tea were not different species, as had been thought, but leaves from the […]
All About Black Tea
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007Of all the varieties of tea, black tea is one of the most popular.
All true tea is the product of the leaves of the Camellia Sinensis plant. But, ah, what a difference a little oxygen and sunlight makes. Green tea is very lightly oxidized, Oolong moderately so and black tea the most heavily oxidized of […]
Tea: a popular beverage for thousands of years
Sunday, July 29th, 2007Tea has been a popular beverage for thousands of years.
No one knows with certainty who first had the odd idea of taking leaves from the Camilla Sinensis plant and adding them to hot water to make a brew. It may have been an accident at first, with leaves from the bush floating into a […]
