Is this tea stale?
If you drink coffee, you can probably tell when your sips are stale. With tea, it might be harder. If you are new to tea, just deciphering what you are drinking is a challenge. Maybe the tea tastes too astringent.…
What’s so special about green tea?
Everyone talks about green tea. It's good for you, it's accessible. But do you know what makes a tea green? Of course you know that all tea comes from the same type of plant. That's like saying that all wine comes…
Tea as Respite
After a brief diversion into adventures in surreal estate, LTR is back. As anyone who has delved into the mysteries of home ownership knows, value in real estate -- unlike tea -- has no logic. It’ s as if an…
When the US had a Tea Czar: Meet Chief Tea Inspector Robert Dick
"To tea experts in this country, mustiness is something which they all agree. They would throw it out," said chief tea inspector Robert Dick in a 1984 interview on the history of the FDA. "The Chinese like it and that…
A Little History Infusion: Before the FDA, there was a Board of Tea Experts
Who knew that for almost a hundred years, the tea in your cup had to pass federal inspection? But that’s exactly what happened, thanks to the Tea Importation Act of 1897, which also had the unintended consequence of excluding entire…