Showing posts with label tea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tea. Show all posts

Friday, February 13, 2009

Green Tea Blog



Continuing the tea theme, here's a link to a great blog about tea. It's called Cha Dao, meaning the way of tea.

The guy who writes it is REALLY into tea, as you'll see from reading just a few of the posts. Has some great information.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Green Tea vs. Breast Cancer



Regular consumption of green tea may reduce a woman’s risk of breast cancer by about 12 per cent, according to a new study from the US and China.

See the full study here.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

An Audio Introduction to Chinese Tea



This afternoon on The Splendid Table, host Lynne Rossetto Kasper interviews Bill Waddington, the owner of Tea Source. Tea Source is a company in Minnesota that imports Chinese and Indian teas. Click here to listen (Realplayer).

Tea is one of the best possible things you can put in your body. It's a modern superfood with a legendary past, revered by cave-dwelling sages as well as research scientists.

In general, the best tea in the world comes from southern China and Taiwan (English tea is a little bit like Belgian chocolate - a remnant of the colonial past.) All tea comes from one plant, camellia sinensis. All the different varieties - green, black, white, et cetera, come from growing and processing methods.

To learn more about tea, take a look at this website.