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Good clean water at the right temperature Three ingredients are essential to making a great cup of tea. Good clean neutral water Great loose leaf tea Hot water at the correct temperature   1. Good clean water Water  without too many minerals, makes the best tea. Too many minerals and metals and your tea will taste bad (think sulfur) and too few will make it flat.  Do not use distilled water because it is devoid of minerals. Chlorine which is used to make drinking water safe can also ruin a cup of tea with its harsh chemical smell.If your water has...

Beware of Detox Teas, Especially the Weight Loss Teas  In our shop we get asked if we sell "detox teas".  Not really knowing about detox teas, I went on the all-knowing web.Online, I thought I would find some articles from some authoritative sites with medical sounding names. But the first article I came across was in Teen Vouge. Never having read the magazine, and because of the type of magazine, I was not expecting anything too substantive.  But the headline caught my attention. (Aren't hedlines supposed to do that), so I opened the link. Why Instagram’s Favorite Diet — "Teatoxing" — Won't Actually Help...

A recent excavation in China of Emperor Jin revealed that he was buried with a large stash of tea. Below left is a picture of the tea that was excavated. On the right is LongJing also known as Dragon Well Green Tea.  There is a huge similarity in teas.  LongJing tea is also happens to be the preferred tea of the current ruling elite in China.  Maybe some things never change.         Apparently tea was enjoyed much earlier than was thought previously.   This discovery also confirmed that tea was an important drink - so important that Chinese emperor's...

Thousands of years ago. When tea started to become a popular drink, Chinese Buddhist monks discovered that drinking tea helped with their daily meditation. Meditation, they believed, was the source of all enlightenment.  If you have ever meditated, you've discovered that it is not easy. Your mind drifts off into distraction and perhaps you even start to nod off. You're not alone.  The ancient monks also encountered these barriers to nirvana.  A Solution Is Found The monks discovered that drinking tea helped them with their daily meditation. They discovered that tea packed a one-two punch of caffeine and L-Theanine. Although they lacked scientific proof,...