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.
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