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Adagio Japan Aid

admin — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:36:34 +0000

Adagio teas currently have a policy running where 15% of all sales will be donated to the Japanese Red Cross for the victims of the recent tsunami and earthquake. Please consider buying your teas from Adagio during this time or at least donating to Japan’s relief effort.

Scalded By Tea in Starbucks – Goes to Court

admin — Sun, 09 May 2010 21:32:20 +0000

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:

What constitutes “unreasonably hot”? I’ve heard in the US drinks are generally cooler than in Europe to void this eventuality.
Why on earth would anyone have tea in Starbucks?!

Jing Tea’s New Infuser

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:06:34 +0000

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.

Follow Adagio on Twitter & Get $5

admin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:27:57 +0000

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.

Tea Wikipedia?

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:17:42 +0000

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.

Wikitedia

Being Treated for Leukemia? Avoid Green Tea

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:19:09 +0000

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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Tetley Tea Hit By Advertising Standards Authority

admin — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:48:01 +0000

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.

Cornish Tea: £180 for 125g of Tea

admin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:40:01 +0000

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!

Horrifying Ommission

admin — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:04:23 +0000

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.

Tea Time on the Google Phone

admin — Sat, 16 May 2009 10:38:51 +0000

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!