Welcome to our site, Tea Sippers. We hope you will find this site to be your favorite resource about your favorite beverage tea. We also hope it will become your first and last stop when searching for resources of tea and all those lovely tea wares. But let’s talk about tea.
Tea is old. It is older than coffee and about the same age as beer as a beverage. According to legend, it was discovered when a leaf or leaves, from the tea tree a Chinese emperor was sitting beneath, fell into the water a servant was boiling for him. The emperor, being an adventurous sort and a scholar, decided to go ahead and try the brew. It worked well for him. Eventually tea became the national drink of the Chinese and the rest is a long and wonderful history of tea coming to the rest of the world.
In addition to being old, tea is a very popular product. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the yield in 2006 was more than 3.6 million tonnes. When you consider it takes only about two grams of tea to make a cup of tea, you can see we could be swimming in it.
In addition to tea having some caffeine, it also has many health benefits as well. There are antioxidants, vitamins and minerals in every cup of tea. There is some evidence, from studies published in such magazines as the Lancet and Phytotherapy Research, that these antioxidants can help prevent some cancers and fight Alzheimer’s.
However, most people couldn’t care less about the health benefits or how many people drink tea or even the history. We simply love a good cup of hot tea or a nice glass of iced tea. It soothes away the stresses of the day or centers a quiet conversation. Tea is great.
We hope you will use our site as a resource to learn about tea and all the many benefits, events, ceremonies, and wares that go along with it. You can even use our site as a resource for finding some of those items or some of the different teas you might wish to try. Check out the posts below for some of the latest news about tea or for informational articles about the different aspects of tea and about teapots, teaspoons, tea ceremonies, tea parties, etc. We hope you will also bookmark this site and add our rss feed to your favorite rss aggregator. Just look for the orange rss icon to the right.
Spread the Word
del.icio.us Digg Furl Reddit Ask BUMPzee Google Netscape Socializer StumbleUpon Technorati Windows Live Yahoo! Help
Insider Tips on Selecting a Tea Vendor
Probably most of you who read this blog’s news are not in the business of selling tea to customers. You, like me, just like to drink it and love all the health benefits that come as a result. However, our source today provides a great look at some tips, provided by Lilach Manheim from TeaGschwendner, on choosing a tea vendor. This would, of course, be the one that…
Interview with President of Tea Forte
Our source today, which is a BusinessWeek article, contains an interview with Gene Dunkin, president of Tea Forte. Tea Forte is a high end tea company that markets in stores such as Neiman Marcus, Harrods, Saks Fifth Avenue and Origins. None of these type of stores is available in my small local town of 100,000+, so I guess that leaves purchasing through…
Tea Goodies from Other Blogs
I found a couple different blogs with interesting information concerning tea today. The first addresses Ginger Tea which actually falls into the herbal tea type instead of the regular teas I usually talk about here. But this seemed interesting. The author of the post lists quite a few benefits to having ginger in your diet. I admit the ginger tea did seem interesting as the ginger was mixed with peppermint to make the tea. Check it out at…
Green Tea Increases Dilation of Artery
Wow! This one is all over the news. In a study out of Greece, they have found that drinking green tea gives you improved blood vessel function 30 minutes after drinking. These findings were presented in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation. Our source says that what is happening is improved function of the endothelial cells that line blood vessels. With improve function, there should be a decreased risk of…
Sweet Tea Pie Recipe from Martha Hall Foose
I just couldn’t pass this one up today. Read a blog post about Sweet Tea Pie which is a recipe in a new book from Martha Hall Foose. The author of the post, Angela McRae, found an error in the recipe concerning the crust. She was able to hunt down another version of it in a newspaper article and discovered that the crust ingredients and amounts as listed were…
