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“Listen to Yourself” Small Business Rules visits Samovar to chat with Jesse
Lindsay Campbell of American Express Small Business Rules pays a visit to Samovar to hear Jesse Jacobs' advice to other small business owners....
ABC News The View from the Bay talks tea and food pairing with Samovar’s Jesse Jacobs
Jesse Jacobs, Samovar Tea Evangelist, pays The View from the Bay a visit to talk tea and food pairing. Deliciousness ensues!...
Huffington Post Recommends the Samovar Romance Tea Set for Your Sweet Valentine
Margaret Ryan, Huffington Post blogger, lists the Samovar Romance Tea Set as an ideal, good taste, gift for your Valentine sweetheart - man or woman....
Specialty Coffee Magazine Makes Tea a Cover Story- With Samovar’s Jesse Jacobs!
Even coffee folks are interested in tea! For their Modern Tea issue, Specialty Coffee Retailer looked to Samovar's Jesse Jacobs to guide them on the Placid Path of tea....
SF Weekly’s Katy St. Clair Finds a Moment of Peace at Samovar Castro
In her SF Weekly Bouncer column, Katy St. Clair shares her experience of getting cozy with some tea and people watching/listening at Samovar Tea Lounge in the Castro....
Samovar in the NY Times: Teahouses’ Unique Blends Are Not Just in the Cup
The New York Times Dining and Wine Section features Samovar among the colorful and diverse San Francisco Bay Area teahouses....
The Mandarin's Tea
Expectation from a 80's Pouchong Oolong
Drawing wisdom from a recent tequila tasting in Mexico.... I am surprised how difficult for us to unlearn or undo our own experience in taste and senses. Expectation is one of the darkest enemy, and raw perception could end a good tasting session prematurely. The fact that most people are...
New York Asia Society Tea Event
Please come and join us for a Tea Tasting Reception on the 17th of March. I will be sharing and brewing a couple of my favorite selections. Hope to see you there. www.asiasociety.org...
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Visual Judging of Dong Ding Oolong Tea.
I remember a third generation tea farmer from Nantou once taught me what to look for in High Mountain oolong."Anything lower than 700M is not considered as High Mountain," He begins. "The harsher and more extreme the growing environment, the tastier the tea is..... and it's all about the sheen,...
Taiwanese Er Mei Shan Old Bush Eastern Beauty
It was a great holiday season for me. Wonderful Family time, food, gifts, tea gatherings and great company filled up the festive month. Chinese New Year is around the corner, so before that, I wish to taste most of the newly collected. Over this weekend, I got to taste an...
Jiang Rong's Mou Lu Ni, Spring Lotus with Frog and Snails
Being a Yixing enthusiast for over 15 years now, I still remember the moment that the spell was casted.The display shelves were full of yixings, big and small. Back in those days when Jiang Rong and Gu Jing Zhou's pots were still available for a price not as hefty as...
Heaven of Tea
Teaviews’ review of Eastern Beauty Oolong
Jamie form Teaviews.com rates Eastern Beauty Oolong tea a 9/10: “A delectably satisfying, sophisticated but easy to approach oolong. This would make a great show off tea for friends you are trying to woo into the wonderful world of loose leaf teas.” Eastern Beauty, a rare Formosa oolong, is a fragrantly sweet...
In a previous post we shared that “legend has it that Buddist monks trained actual monkeys to climb to the top of the Camellia sinensis plant and pick the youngest tea buds for a premium oolong tea,” as the monks were unable to climb to the highest branches to pick...
Celebrate International Women’s Day with CARE
CARE presents a night to celebrate women with Half the Sky LIVE. Don't miss it!...
As we fight through the last weeks of winter, we are all craving a bit of sunshine and the vibrant views of flowers. In hopes of sending spring my way a bit early this year, I’ve been sipping teas inspired by the garden. Sweet Fruit Garden herbal tea is filled...
CARE has done great work in Haiti, but needs more help. Teavana is still matching donations up to $20,000....
Walker Tea Review’s Video Of Teavana’s Silver Needle White Tea
While searching through videos that mentioned Teavana, I came across this incredibly informative tea review of our Silver Needle White Tea on Walker Tea Review. Jason Walker carefully examines the tea leaves and offers fabulous insight into the aromatic and flavor profiles of the delicate white leaves after being steeped. He...
CHA DAO
The 'Starbucks of Tea': A Surprising Turn
by CORAX Photo: Corax When Argo Tea opened its first locations in Chicago, its founders were quoted as wanting Argo to become the 'Starbucks of Tea.' Quite apart from the questionable decision to refer to their tea houses as 'tea cafes,' to couch one's aspiration in terms of...
by DOGMA_ICeaseless flows the river, water ever changing; bubbles in still pool gather and subside, impermanent: so in this world are we and all we devise.–Kamo no Chōmei, HōjōkiA couple of sunspot cycles ago, a soi-disant Zen teacher warned a novice against high expectations when offering ego repatterning to help...
by STEVEN D. OWYOUNGWhen Yi Mok wrote the Ch’abu 茶賦 (Korean Ode to Tea) in the late fourteen hundreds, the Ode joined the long and illustrious history of tea. For centuries, Korean court annalists wrote of tea in the kingdom’s earliest records, and scholars and poets filled their literary compilations...
by WARREN PELTIER[[EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third in a series of entries by Warren Peltier on Korean tea texts. For the first and second entries, click here and here. This third entry is an examination of the Dongdasong of Seon monk Cho Ui 艸衣禪師.]]Previously, we looked at a broad...
Korean Tea Texts, Classical and Modern [ii]: The Cha Bu of Hanjae Yi Mok
by WARREN PELTIER[[EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second in a series of entries by Warren Peltier on Korean tea texts. For the first and third entries, click here and here.]]In this entry I offer a summation of the basic ideas expressed by Hanjae in Cha Bu, accompanied by my own...
Korean Tea Texts, Classical and Modern [i]: An Overview
by WARREN PELTIER[[EDITOR'S NOTE: In a recent review of THE TRUE HISTORY OF TEA, DougH laments that book's almost total omission of information on Korean tea culture. This is surely an important lacuna in any truly comprehensive account of tea history and culture; and indeed it is about to be...
Tea Time with A.C. Cargill
Are Loose Teas Straining Your Love for Tea?
Using the “value system,” I come to a decision about whether or not to use an infuser so I can enjoy loose leaf teas in the office. What’s the “value system”? Thought you’d never ask. Find out on The Taste of English Tea Blog....
Let Your “Tea Nose” Do the Talking
Teas have many fragrances. Some occur naturally as part of the processing of the tea leaves. Others are added in. Taking a moment to smell the dry tea, and take in these aromas, can be an important part of your tea drinking experience. See why on The Taste of English...
Black tea is rich and stands up to milk and sweetener. Green tea has many charms plus lots of healthy “stuff.” But Oolong, sort of halfway between, is a varied and flavorful alternative. Get more details on The English Tea Blog....
Are you socially conscious about your tea? Find out what I mean on The Taste of English Tea Blog....
A 4-Leaf Clover for Tea Time Luck
I’m not sure that this 4-leaf clover has ever brought me any luck, but it is interesting to look at. Actually, I have found hundreds over the years, starting in my mid-teens. Since they are a genetic mutation, you can usually find several in the same area. The trick is...
Teatime Memory — My Summer Job
Do you really know your family members? Get to see them through the eyes of others. You might be pleasantly surprised. Pour yourself a cuppa tea and read about how I got to see that special side of my father, that is, how others saw him, while working my Summer...
LeviTea
Is My Food Really USDA Certified Organic?
What does “Organic” Mean? Organic agriculture is a production method that emphasizes the use of renewable resources and the conservation of soil and water to enhance environmental... Blissful Writings About Tea, Green Living, Health, Recipes, Spas and Weight Loss ...
Natural Healing: Tea Tree and Lavender Essential Oils
Aromatherapy By now everyone has heard the term. Many know what it means, and some know how to apply the use of essential oils into their everyday life. For me, the use of essential oils became a way... Blissful Writings About Tea, Green Living, Health, Recipes, Spas and Weight Loss ...
There are essentially three main classes or grades of tea: 1) Leaf, 2) Broken and 3) Dust. In each of these main classes, the tea is further classified according to size and the final grades which... Blissful Writings About Tea, Green Living, Health, Recipes, Spas and Weight Loss ...
Based on the type of manufacturing process, teas in general can be classified into three major types: green tea (un-oxidized), oolong tea (partially oxidized) and black tea (fully oxidized). Apart... Blissful Writings About Tea, Green Living, Health, Recipes, Spas and Weight Loss ...
Tea is produced in 35 countries worldwide spread over all continents. The total area under tea stands at around 2.79 million hectares with Asia accounting for 89% of the area followed by Africa with... Blissful Writings About Tea, Green Living, Health, Recipes, Spas and Weight Loss ...
Tea&co.
Monkey Picked Tea comercializado por Edible …Este raro té chino es cuidadosamente seleccionado por monos especialmente entrenados en una remota región montañosa de China!!!!! puro marketing …La leyenda dice que los monos fueron utilizados para recolectar té hace diez siglos, ya que al ver que su dueño llegaba a un té que crecía salvaje en...
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simple y moderna el té en un enfoque nítido y bello materiales acero inoxidable 304, vidrio borosilicato (Pyrex), y silicona capacidad lo suficiente para dos tazas de té. diseño Joey Roth joey@joeyroth.com http://www.sorapot.com/ Archivado bajo:teapots / teteras ...
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Gzhel es un tipo de cerámica que recibe su nombre de la ciudad de Gzehl y que se produce en ella y sus alrededores desde 1802. Gzhel fue un centro de alfarería popular y ha desempeñado un papel importante en el desarrollo del arte de la cerámica en Rusia. Cada pieza de porcelana y de...
My Private Collection (The Puerh Journey)
Broken up a tong of these for some relatives....
2009 Chang Tai Yi Chang Hao (10th Anniversary)
2009 is the 10th Anniversary of the 1999 Yi Chang HaoA series of Yi Chang Hao cakes are produced with yiwu material to commerate the 99 Yi Chang Hao. 2009 Yi Chang Hao, tong of 7 cakes consisting of the below: ...
"We lunched upstairs at Botin's, it is one of the best restaurants in the world. We had roast young suckling pig and drunk rioja alta." Ernest Hemingway...
Tea Tasting Event ( Half-Dipper / YS )
After a busy month so far and ahead, I finally managed to find time to get through the samples for the tea tasting event courtesy of Scott at YS and organised by Hobbes at Half Dipper ( http://half-dipper.blogspot.com/2009/08/tea-tasting-event.html )I only know that these 5 samples are from a series of...
I came across some tongs of Mengku Sheng Cakes in its new wooden packaging. It sure is pretty.A tong of 400g cakes caged up:6 tongs of mini cakes nicely packed and caged:...
Gyokuro - Japanese Green Tea 玉露
A session of the Japanese Green Tea Gyokuro(Gyokuro - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyokuro)Kyoto Gyokuro KinzuruFine needle like leaves looking shiny and also known as the 'jade dew' The proper japanese wares have been stored somewhere far too long for my memory to relocate so forgive the use of the gaiwan.I used a ratio...
World of Tea
Open for business: Chicago Tea Garden…
I am proud to announce that our company, Chicago Tea Garden is finally open for business. We have 9 teas from David Lee Hoffman’s Phoenix Collection to start and some local tea-ware from Chicago Potter — Chris Chaney. Lainie Petersen has written a wonderful article on us as the Chicago...
Kenya Tea Strike is Over [via: Businessweek]
Kenyan Tea workers went on strike from Feb 8 to Feb 12 — happily they have reached a resolution in the matter: “The strike started after some workers were paid below the minimum recommended wage, George Nesbitt, director of Tea Warehouses Ltd., said by phone from Mombasa” Read the whole thing here:...
Fresh Darjeeling Tea – Rare Pearls Rohini Estate
Just before Christmas I received a beautiful package from India (it had a bit of a tough time in the mail as evidence by the dents in the box, but the tea was safe) from my good friend Sonam of “Fresh Darjeeling Tea.” Inside were 3 beautifully packaged fresh teas from...
Tea Science [via: The Malaysian Star]
The Malaysian Star posted quite a lengthy article on their fortnightly column “Nutri-Science” by Dr. Tee Siong — its a great summation of all of the tea health stories we’ve been hearing of late. I invite you to give it a read: http://thestar.com.my/health/story.asp?file=/2010/1/31/health/5568096&sec=health Bookmark to:...
Its been a long time coming, but I am finally starting my own tea company. Things are in the late stages, teas have been sourced, packaging is finalized. I’m just working on the web site at this time, so if there is anything that annoys you about tea shop sites,...
Sri Lanka to donate $25000 (1000kg) of tea to Haiti earthquake victims.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has pledged $25000 in tea as well as $25000 in show of support for Haiti. While many countries cannot afford to send millions in support, its great to see them doing what they can. Read the press release at the Sri Lanka Government Web Site:...
Life in Teacup
Gongfu vs. mug brewing (2) - Yong Chun Fo Shou greener style
Introduction and index of these experiment series of Gongfu vs. mug brewing is here.Mug Brewing:I tried mug brewing of the greener style Yong Chun Fo Shou a few weeks ago, and logged it on Steepster.Brewed in mug, the tea is very enjoyable. But flavor is much lighter than in Gongfu...
2010 Shincha News (3) - some bad news
In the past a few days:Mt. Wu Dong - snowy and frosty. Significant disaster for spring high mountain Dan Cong :-(Northern Zhejiang - a lot of snow (a lot for Zhejiang, not comparable to New England winter snow though). An Ji Bai Cha, Zhejiang Long Jing (including Da Fo Long...
2010 Shincha News (2) - Long Jing Village (photos from a Long Jing blogger)
2010 Shincha News (1) is here.Long Jing Village in early March - Lots of photos from this Long Jing Village resident!A cup of Xihu Long Jing from long time ago -...
Earliest green tea of 2010 - Frosty Spring Yunnan Roast Green
I’ve been to Yunnan only once, but I am very sure it’s one of my favorite Chinese provinces, top 3, at least. It’s the most diverse province of China, ethnically, culturally, geographically, geologically, and tea-wise. Yunnan is where human beings first ever discovered, harvested and made tea.The subtropical region of...
Gongfu vs. mug brewing (1) – Mt. Wu Dong Zhi Lan Dan Cong
Last year I did some recording of gongfu brewing of this tea here.First mug brewingIn mug brewing that I did yesterday, I used about 20 long strip leaves of my High Mountain Zhi Lan (orchid) Dan Cong to cover 2/3 of the bottom of my glass mug, and brew the...
I love glass mug, and use it for green tea all the time. But for oolong, I had almost always used a small teapot (or gaiwan). Recently I tried more glass mug brewing of oolong, curious in finding out how well can mug brewing illicit flavors of oolong. Overall I...