Tag Archives: tea
The Key to Health is a Good Routine
One of the most important parts of a healthy lifestyle is a proper routine. A set of actions and habits that form your daily routine will enable you to manage and maintain your health and also give you the structure around which you expand and further your goals and dreams. I find that the biggest [...]
The Great China Tea Run
There were other brave and dedicated men who spent their lives smuggling tea from China to their home markets. The Ma Bang (Horse Caravans) of Tibet traveled over mountains and across barren plateaus to reach their destinations. For the West, the most stories smugglers are the clippers of the the mid 19th century: the fastest [...]
Close-Up on Yak Butter Tea
Much of the tea that crossed the border from China into Tibet over the centuries was destined for the cups of nobles and lords. The locals Tibetans in the highlands learned that although the tea from China was nice, the best tea was their own and the best way to brew tea was to infuse [...]
The Horse and Tea Trade Route
For scholars, the trade routes that linked southwest China with southeast Asia and India are a matter of fact and, for some, a lifelong work. The route is probably one of the most fascinating zones of cultural, economic and political contact between Tibet, China, India and the dozens of different peoples that call these regions [...]
Tea As Medicine
Tea is medicine for the new age, just as it was medicine for the ancient humans of ages long past. Tea is the type of medicine that integrates itself silently into your morning while you read your paper before work. It works to keep your body strong and safe in the afternoon as you struggle [...]
Close-Up on Brick Tea (Tuo Cha)
When it comes to tea, only recently has the common man gained access to fresh greens and whites, aromatic oolongs and delicate yellows. For centuries, the best teas went to the rich and powerful and the common man drank what he could when he could. So what did he drink? He drank brick tea. Brick [...]
Bitter Tea: Bittersweet Medicine
Yesterday I drank several cups of Hainan Kuding Cha just to remember why I loved the tea so much. Since being back in the US, I have shied away from the bitter teas, because I assumed that most of my friends would find it hard to swallow (both literally and figuratively). But then I [...]
Caring for Sunburned Skin with Home Ingredients
It’s late summer, and for many of us, it means lucky, happy, lazy vacation in the sun. This most likely means we’re cramming in as much time in the sun as we can; vacation, unfortunately for yet more of them many, means time in the sun to make up for all the time we [...]
The Breadth and Depth of Oolong Teas
The breadth and depth of oolong teas often leads to confusion over what exactly an oolong tea is. Last week we talked about Yellow Teas and how they are allowed to oxidize or “stew” for a while, which gives them a darker color and a more complex collection of flavors and aromas than that of [...]
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