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Gunpowder Green is a particularly global tea.  It’s important in China, in Northern Africa, and in Britain.  How is this tea so popular in so many places?  It’s due to its particularly ancient design.   Before tea was sold and transported as loose piles of fragrant, dried leaves, tea was sold in bricks of compressed leaves.  This is because carrying tea from where it was grown, to all of the places which wanted to consume it, took months, if not years, and compressing the tea into bricks was the only way to keep it from becoming stale during the journey....

It's strange, if you think about it, that such a fun and tasty beverage, ranging in flavor varieties from 'Blueberry Muffin' to 'Cumin and Lemon,' can be found on store shelves around the world. Of course, there are certain types and strains which provide the health-bolstering properties of herbs, spices, and fruit bases including ginseng teas, ginger teas, acai teas, and of course other brands that tout weight-control. But is that why we love it? Is that why, after water, it's the world's most consumed beverage? Is that why poets have written about its character, its ability to delight, its nature, and our relationship...

I write a blog about tea.  The one that you’re reading, to be precise.  I have written this blog for a year.  I assumed that at this point, I understand most things about tea.  It’s all the same plant (except when it isn’t) whether it is black, white or green.  Different types of tea should steep at different temperatures.  It originated in China, and was brought by the British to India.  And those two nations continue to be the largest exporters more tea than anywhere else in the world. However, I was completely wrong about one of those facts.  The...

For many people, tomorrow is a holiday.  It’s the summer solstice, or the first official day of summer.  It is the longest day of the year, and is celebrated by many, along with the winter solstice and the equinoxes, as a time for reflection. The summer solstice, in particular, is about everything you would associate with summer.  It’s about celebrating the abundance that’s absolutely everywhere right now, from the birds waking you up in the morning, to the weeds pushing up through the sidewalk, to the children home from school.  It’s a time for a general sense of gratefulness for...