A customer of Starbucks in the US is suing the chain for providing her with “unreasonably hot tea”. This is ridiculous in more ways than one:
Looks like Jing Tea (UK tea merchant) have recently released a new tea infuser mug.
Tea Infuser Mug
Here’s what Jing have to say:
The Infuser Mug is a three piece mug with a removable infuser basket. After infusing the tea, you simply remove the infuser and place it on the upturned lid, leaving you with a full mug of perfectly infused tea.
Adagio teas is one of the biggest (and best imho) tea merchants in the US. You can now get a $5 discount when you follow them on Twitter!
Simply visit Adagio Teas
and click the link for Twitter and fill in your username.
Well yes it does indeed look like a tea wiki has been created. A wiki is simply a way for people to edit the content themselves a bit like wikipedia. There’s loads out there all dedicated to specialist subjects. Now it looks like a tea wiki has been set up too!
You can visit it and fill in the gaps as you see fit. 
In a previous post I mentioned how green tea has been shown to fight leukemia but a University of Southern Calafornia team have found that if you’re being treated for leukemia with Velcade it can render the drug completely inneffective.
That doesn’t mean tea is dangerous or cancer causing but it is something you should avoid if you happen to be getting treatment using Velcade.
Just thought I’d give people a quick ‘heads up’ on that one.
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The UK ASA that regulate all television advertising across the country have banned a commercial by the majr tea merchant Tetley because it portrays green tea as being more healthy than it actually is.
In the advert a woman is seen drinking tea instead of going for a run and its implied that tyhe tea is just as good as going for a run – or so say the ASA.
Its all a bit silly and far over the top. I think any advertising for green tea ia a good thing because it doesn’t get the promotion it deserves in the UK.
You can read the full adjudication here.
I posted about the Tregothnan tea plantation a few months ago and how this Cornish tea plantation in the UK is making a success of growing tea in these wet and windy isles.
Then I stumbled across a Guardian article in which the reporter went to get some single estate tea as a sample to try and was told that his minimum order of 125g was…£180!
Edward Eisler of Jing Tea said fo the tea after a blind taste test:
“Looking at it, from the colour and shape of the leaf and the flecks of green, it resembles darjeeling. It has good body and richness, but it doesn’t have clarity of presentation of flavour, which is the key thing I look for in whatever tea I’m buying. It’s also slightly burnt. I’d guess someone would use it for blending.”
Probably not worth the £180 then!
I was conducting some gentle perusing of the internet when I came across a web directory at searchsight.com. A web directory similar to many others offering search of their huge database and also enabling people to submit their site.
So I thought – nothing ventured nothing gained. I’ll add Wonders of Tea. So as is the custom with such sites I go to the submission page shown below.
Notice anything missing? No tea category!
How on earth can these people miss one of the greatest beverages ever conceived and yet they’ll include muddy water (aka coffee)?
Absolutely unbelievable.
Well I recently received my new contract mobile phone and being a ‘nerd/geek’ I went for the Google phone on the T-Mobile network. Well it was just a normal phone until I came across Tea Time! It’s an Android phone app that has a tea timer. You simply select the type of tea you’re brewing (e.g. black, green, matcha, etc) and then set the timer off. It will countdown to the optimal time for that particular type of tea.
So with my new phone I’ll never get stewed or weak tea ever again!
The economic problems have had some seriously dire consequences but possibly one of the worst I’ve seen so far is the cutting of tea at IBM’s many international offices.
It seems IBM are too poor to afford to pay for staff to drink this most essential of refreshments.
More at the Australian Business.
