Tea in France
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 Posted in Intl Tea Trade | No Comments »Do the French drink tea? This week All About Tea has been in Paris, exhibiting at SIAL, the European food show. It has been a fascinating opportunity to learn more about the changing market for quality tea. We are so used to ...
New tea shop opens in London
Friday, October 17th, 2008 Posted in Tea Places | No Comments »A new tea shop has opened its doors to the public, Chamama - strapline: "Tea And More" - has set up shop in Wilton Road, Victoria, advised and assisted by All About Tea (why shouldn't we be partisan?! We love what ...
Tea wars at BBC
Thursday, October 16th, 2008 Posted in Quirky | No Comments »The BBC is charging staff 25p to put milk in their tea. The cost-cutting measure comes a month after it was reported that Jonathan Ross has signed a three-year contract with the BBC worth £18m. News of the cutback has not ...
Elephants develop a taste for tea
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 Posted in Indian Tea Industry, Quirky | No Comments »Workers in a tea estate in India awoke to find they had company this week - a herd of elephants had come round for tea. The creatures created quite a stir locally, and caused significant disruption and damage, but so far ...
School bans sugar in tea
Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in Quirky | 1 Comment »The Tonypandy Community College in Rhondda, South Wales, has become the latest school to be caught up in a row about overzealous application of healthy eating guidelines after it removed sugar from the school canteen. The move follows guidelines issued by ...
Yerba Mate Etiquette – A Beginner’s Guide
Thursday, October 9th, 2008 Posted in Beginner's Guides to Tea | No Comments »One in an occasional series of Beginner’s Guides to Tea - short articles that provide a survey or overview of a particular area of tea and assume no prior knowledge. Brought to you by All About Tea. You can drink ...
14 Health Benefits of Yerba Mate
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 Posted in Beginner's Guides to Tea, Health, Weight Loss | No Comments »Yerba Mate has been used for hundreds of years medicinally and as a tonic. Many of its benefits are confirmed by modern research. Others are not yet proven by science but have been observed during centuries of traditional ...
Yerba Mate Cultivation – A Beginner’s Guide
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 Posted in Beginner's Guides to Tea | 4 Comments »Yerba Mate (pronounced mah-tay) is a medium-sized evergreen tree with graceful, full-leaved branches. Its white flowers give way to small black, red or yellow berries. Its Latin name is Ilex paraguarensis and it is a relative of the ...
Coffee is dead: long live tea
Monday, October 6th, 2008 Posted in Intl Tea Trade | 1 Comment »"Never you mind, my dear, " I said to her, "you put on the kettle. We'll have ourselves a nice cup of tea." Peter Cooke satirized the British habit of resorting to tea when in a tight spot. Like all great ...
Yerba Mate Glossary – A Beginner’s Guide
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 Posted in Beginner's Guides to Tea | No Comments »One in an occasional series of Beginner’s Guides to Tea - short articles that provide a survey or overview of a particular area of tea and assume no prior knowledge. Brought to you by All About Tea. Yerba mate has ...
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