With today's Tea Party lauding their connection to the original Boston Tea Party and dressing up as 18th century patriots at rallies, it’s time to take a look at history. While Tea Party movement rails about runaway taxes, the original impetus…
Common wisdom is that “taxation without representation” was the rallying cry for tossing 90,000 pounds of tea worth $1,000,000 in today’s dollars into Boston Harbor in 1773, an iconic act of civil disobedience that set the stage for the American Revolution.…
After a long teabreak, LTR is back with a pressing issue: Tea may be the world’s most popular drink, but the amount of misleading and downright wrong information is breathtaking. On one side are the tea cognoscenti who can rattle off…
Every Spring, tea mavens flock to the cavernous halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center for World Tea Expo. Some come to taste and try new teas and products; others to exhibit. Some are old hands; others represent new companies…
Unless you grew up in South Africa, chances are you never heard of Honeybush, a botanical cousin of its more famous relative, Rooibus, but with a smooth finish and a surprising wealth of health benefits that a Canadian-based company…