Drinking Tea Helps You Lose Weight: Fact or Fiction?
Try searching for “green tea” on Google. Seriously. Do it.
Check out the right side of the page, where those sponsored links are. What’s being advertised? Tea, right? But chances are that the people selling the tea are trying to tell you that drinking tea – sorry, drinking their tea – will make you lose weight.
Take it with a grain of salt.
The Appropriate Time for Tea
During Ming-era China, one Hsü Tz’u-shu compiled a poem describing all the times when it was appropriate to drink tea. I came across this list in Beatrice Hohenegger’s Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West
White Peony (Bai Mudan) from t leaf T (Review)
Last November, Bec and I spent a month travelling around New Zealand. It was a great time to visit, just as summer was setting in, and we explored quite a bit of South Island in a campervan. One of the things we did often – as you do – was to visit local cafés. Got to support the local economy, right?
Here in Melbourne, I’ve learned to keep an eye out for cafés serving T2 teas or another tea brand I respect. If I’m going to be paying for a cup of tea, I want to know I’m getting more than just a Lipton tea bag.
As we made our way through New Zealand, I saw a lot of Twinings and Dilmah – and the occasional Lipton – but eventually discovered t leaf T, which can roughly be considered the T2 of New Zealand. In Wellington, I found a little t leaf T outlet where I spent a happy half hour browsing their offerings. In the end, I picked up a Feijoa Green as a gift for Bec and a White Peony as an early Christmas gift for myself.
7 Common Questions About Black Tea
To the uninitiated, black tea is synonymous with tea. But while it’s the most common tea found outside of Asia, in reality black tea is second to green tea in terms of global popularity.
In this introduction to black tea, I discuss the basic definition of black tea, where it’s grown, some of the most famous varieties and much more.
Meghma Oolong Limited Edition (Review)
I’ll confess: I’m new to the art of writing about taste sensations. For a long time I’ve marvelled at those perceptive or creative souls who write the blurbs on wine bottles. You know, the type who pick up hints of tobacco, chocolate and dusty desert roads when all you can taste is grape, fermented and alcoholic.
But since I’ve started a website about tea, one of my goals has been to learn this art. Don’t get me wrong, my problem isn’t in picking a good tea from a bad tea, or distinguishing between an exceptional tea and a good tea. I can taste the quality. But describing it is much more challenging.
