Tea Matters

Benefits of Drinking tea
Tea - A toast to good healthTea sets you free. From anxiety, stress and free radicals. Tea is one of the richest sources of antioxidants, the chemicals that prevent cell damage caused by highly reactive molecules called free radicals that are often associated with cancer and to a lesser extent,...

Science of Tea
Tea makes the world go round Once used as medicine, this delicious liquid is now the largest consumed in the world after water. While it took 3000 years for it to become an everyday drink, one supposes that the evolution happened to human beings thanks to the tea they consumed....

History of Tea
Tea- History, Geography & Politics in a cup How tea came to be is an intriguing, myth-filled tale, spanning continents, and filled with political turns, twists, and economical consequences that make it a story that lies somewhere between a Bond movie and a Dalrymple novel. The Pre-Colonial EraChinese Green Tea-...

Legends of Tea
Legends to keep you awake! The Chinese and Koreans seem to have agreed on something. This particular legend. That Chinese Emperor Shen Nung discovered tea when some tealeaves accidentally fell into some water he was boiling, and ended up loving it. What an emperor was doing boiling water next to...

Types of Tea Flushes
Tea- the shrub, the seasons and the savour Like little soldiers, tea shrubs all stand in rows, organised, uniformed and in harmony.Tea plantations are like a picture postcard of ever-expanding rolling hills with well-manicured greenery. But this isn’t really for the benefit of the beholder, rather it represents the traditional...

Types of Tea
Cuz everyone has a type… of Tea. You can never have too much of a good thing. Probably why there’s a whopping 1,500 different types of tea in the world. Different soils, climates, altitudes, drying and processing methods can all affect the flavour and look of a tea. What most...

Tea Cultures
Peer into the cultural ken of a tea-filled kaleidoscope, and you’ll be surprised at the astonishing array of images that appear. Every region across the globe exhibits a unique tea-drinking culture that is both intriguing and informative, incredible as it’s commonplace, novel and traditional all at once. THE ORIENT Let’s...

Tea Processing
The leaves of Camellia Sinesis plant or the tea shrub transform themselves into Green, White, Black and Oolong tea varieties during the tea processing period. A carefully monitored, multi-step procedure, tea processing is much like creating a magic portion, a little bit more of this step or little less of...

Bagpipes And Bagans: Of Single Malt Scotch And Premium Tea
“Too much of anything is bad, too much of good whisky is barely enough,” wrote Mark Twain. While fellow-writer C.S. Lewis said, “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”Two great minds, two great drinks, both in search of perfection....