Elephants Rampage in Dam Dim Tea Estate, Dooars
Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in Indian Tea Industry, Quirky | 1 Comment »The Dam Dim (or Dumdim) Tea Estate has been ravaged by elephants in a recent incursion. The incident happened 10 Oct 09, when a herd of elephants from the Baikunthapur jungles entered the Dooars tea gardens during the night. The animals ...
Milk and Sugar? No, salt and yak butter for me please.
Monday, October 26th, 2009 Posted in Quirky, Tea Places, Tibet | No Comments »Tibetan Butter Tea, or po cha, is a churned drink made from tea, salt and yak butter. It is a traditional part of life in Tibet and Bhutan, where it is drunk every morning. Nomads are believed to drink around 40 ...
Peet’s Coffee and Tea – Latest Results Due
Monday, October 26th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The famous American coffee merchants, Peet's Coffee and Tea Inc, will report their third quarter results this coming Tuesday, Oct 27 09. Peet's was founded in 1966 in Berkeley, California by Alfred Peet, an early tea authority and "the grandfather of ...
Green Tea Fights Cancer, published study reports
Monday, October 26th, 2009 Posted in Health, Japanese Tea | 6 Comments »A Japanese study offers new evidence that regular consumption of green tea can drastically reduce the risk of cancer. The Tohoku University School of Medicine in Sendai studied 41,761 Japanese adults. Those drinking four cups of green tea per day ...
Tanzanian Tea Turmoil
Friday, October 23rd, 2009 Posted in Intl Tea Trade, Tea Bags, Tea Places | No Comments »Sales of Tanzanian tea were extremely poor at last week's Mombasa auction. Volumes were down more than 70% on the same week last year. Mombasa is the most important conduit for sales of African teas to the world markets, and ...
Darjeeling Tea Edges Closer to EU Recognition
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 Posted in Beginner's Guides to Tea, Indian Tea Industry, Intl Tea Trade, Tea History, Tea Places | No Comments »The long battle to win recognition for the Darjeeling tea region has taken a significant step forward. Now the region must wait anxiously for six months to see if anyone lodges an objection to the registration of a European GI Mark. The ...
Latest from Assam: it’s good news and bad news…
Monday, October 19th, 2009 Posted in Indian Tea Industry, Intl Tea Trade, Tea Places | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_1270" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Increased production in Assam region"][/caption] No-one is going to try and pretend it's been a great year for the Indian tea industry. Both Darjeeling and Assam have seen bad droughts this year - you may remember our shocking ...
OK, so what exactly does Yerba Mate contain?
Friday, October 16th, 2009 Posted in Beginner's Guides to Tea, Health | No Comments »Still more on our occasional Yerba Mate theme! The questions keep flooding in. Recently: "What exactly does Yerba Mate contain?". Well, I had to seek the assistance of some of the scientific journals and Emily, my scientist next-door neighbour, but ...
New study casts doubt on green tea’s anti-cancer properties
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 Posted in Health, Herbal Teas | 2 Comments »[caption id="attachment_1041" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The evidence for green tea's cancer prevention properties is not as strong as once thought"][/caption] A review of 51 previous studies of green tea’s health benefits has concluded the jury is still out on whether it really ...
The nature of black tea
Monday, October 12th, 2009 Posted in Beginner's Guides to Tea, Tea History | 2 Comments »The state of Assam produces black teaMost people have heard about black tea – but as with many of the tea terms its precise nature may be unclear to many. So here is a handy guide to the product. Black tea is ...
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