A woman is like a tea bag – you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
-Eleanor Roosevelt, Former First Lady
White tea leaves are plucked much more discriminately than other tea leaves. To begin with, they are only plucked on a few days of the year in the beginning of spring.....
Drinking at least four cups of tea daily offers beneficial results (see below) and may help prevent any number of diseases.
All tea contains cancer-fighting antioxidants, but high-quality green and white teas have them in greater concentrations.
Tea decaffeinated by a water and carbon dioxide process retains 95 percent of its beneficial flavonoids.
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A woman is like a tea bag – you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
-Eleanor Roosevelt, Former First Lady
White tea leaves are plucked much more discriminately than other tea leaves. To begin with, they are only plucked on a few days of the year in the beginning of spring.....
Drinking at least four cups of tea daily offers beneficial results (see below) and may help prevent any number of diseases.
All tea contains cancer-fighting antioxidants, but high-quality green and white teas have them in greater concentrations.
Tea decaffeinated by a water and carbon dioxide process retains 95 percent of its beneficial flavonoids.
...
One of the remarkable qualities about many herbs is
the fact that they can do more for your body than merely treat symptoms.
In many cases, they can treat the symptoms and an underlying weakness.
If you get hay fever, for instance, and take
elderberry Chai tea to relieve your stuffiness and congestion, you are
deriving...
While it is intriguing to explore the history, culture, and some of the philosophy of the Tao, however briefly, thousands of books haven’t ever grasped it, and the best we can do is apply it to the Leaf we adore. In relation to my personal understandings and interpretations...
The twirling brown leaves
and golden tips of the world’s greatest Assam black teas yield lovely
honey and malty flavors, a little like the maltiness of a good beer.
Assams are also among the most assertive and brisk of the black teas.
It’s no accident: The more quickly a tea is made, the brisker its body....
You can also eat tea, using it in everything from stir-fry to muffins. This is really not such a far-out idea, since people were eating tea a couple of thousand years ago. It’s relatively simple to substitute concentrated tea for liquids in many baking recipes. Sweet breads and muffins seem particularly suited to this...
Different teas taste best with different kinds of food. As with wine, much depends on personal taste, but these combinations are worth trying. As a general guideline, try pairing teas with foods from the same geographic region. For example, Japanese green teas taste wonderful with many of the foods indigenous to that country....
A 'proper tea' is much nicer than a 'very nearly tea,' which is one you forget about afterwards.
-A.A. Milne, Writer
Yellow chai tea is grown and produced only in China, and not much of it is
exported, making it the rarest of the major tea types covered in this
book. It is processed in a way that is similar...
CHAI TEA HEALTH FACTS
Drinking at least four cups of tea daily offers beneficial results (see below) and may help prevent any number of diseases.
All tea contains cancer-fighting antioxidants, but high-quality green and white teas have them in greater concentrations.
Tea decaffeinated by a water and carbon dioxide...
