Ah, the web. Look up 'how to decaffeinate tea" and you will find breathless missives advocating infusing tea for 30 seconds or up to five minutes as the cheap, foolproof way to extract caffeine from tea. Nice myth. Or as…
What if someone told you to throw out that first cup of freshly ground coffee, pour water over the used grinds and -- voila! -- decaf coffee! Yet that's the method some tout for tea. Now, tea leaves aren't coffee…
Say you want to order a low-caffeine tea. For years, common wisdom said white tea: Its delicate aroma, pale color just sounded like the perfect after-dinner sip. Not like black tea, with its assertive, jump-start flavor. So which is it?…
France isn't the only place with terroir chops. China overflows with tea regions specific to green, black, white and yellow. (Not a mistake: yellow tea was actually a tribute tea to the emperor.) Most of the green tea from China…
Most teas have a shelf life. Green tea, if it’s too old, can tastes stale, flavorless, and lose color. Black tea can taste flat and off when past its prime. Then there’s Pu-erh, a tea that can take decades to…