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Professional Tea Taster Explains How He Makes His Perfect Brew
Ah, the humble cup of tea. Is there anything in the world that so unites, and yet divides, everyone? Everyone has their own way of doing things – and some…
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Tea Masters Cup representative named Best Tea Advocate
Questex has announced the next winners of one of the most prestigious world tea contests – World Tea Best of Awards 2020, which is annually presented in the USA as part of the…
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High-quality tea could be grown right here in Scotland – with a little help from scientists
A group of Scottish tea planters are on a mission to find the perfect brew that can be grown on home soil. Rebecca Shearer speaks to some of those involved in the project to find out more..…
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F.A.D.S + fujiki studio create a porous manifold as a japanese tearoom in Tokyo
F.A.D.S + fujiki studio created a temporary hut, in Shinku-Ku, Japan, in which they argued that breathing architecture behaves like a ‘living thing‘. The artwork is composed of a…
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Treehouse meets Japanese teahouse at Hombroich rocket station in Germany
Terunobu Fujimori’s teahouses literally grow on trees. The Japanese architect builds poetic sites of ceremonial encounter into the forks and onto the trunks of trees. Now the 73-year-old is…
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How China’s De’ang people make sour tea
On Santai Mountain in Yunnan’s Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture lives an ancient ethnic group called De’ang. They have a special sour tea that has been passed down for…
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Tea Pilgrimage. Aliona Velichko’s Adventures
Aliona Velichko (Minsk, Belarus) has been studying tea culture for 14 years. Tea ceremonies, tea education and also tea travel. She calls herself a tea pilgrim — a person who travels across…
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Turning Hobby into Profession. Dmitriy Filimonov’s Method
Dmitriy Filimonov is Head of the Tea Department at Goodwine company (Kyiv, Ukraine), winner of Tea Masters Cup International in Enshi, China (first in Tea Preparation, third in Tea Tasting).…
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Basics of Vietnamese Tea Culture
Indigenous way of making and drinking tea The oldest way of preparing tea that exists in Vietnam till today is “nước chè tươi” (“nuoc che tuoi”, brewing fresh tea leaves). Families living in…
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Three Kilos of Tea History. George van Driem’s Weight
George van Driem is a linguist, professor of historical linguistics, director of the Linguistics Institute at the University of Bern and author of the recently published book The Tale of Tea:…
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Polyphenolic Composition in Leaves of Camellia Irrawadiensis
Japanese scientists conducted a comparative analysis of three camellias — C. sinensis, C. irrawadiensis and C.taliensis — to determine or clarify the differences between their polyphenolic and…
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Do Not Smoke, Do Not Snore, But Drink Tea Instead
For more than five years, Chinese scientists have observed the health and lifestyle of 34,825 Shanghai men, trying to find the correlation between the risk of diabetes and the duration of…
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Tea Taster’s Perception Horizon
Nikolai Dolgii is a manager at the Quality and New products department at Orimi, the largest tea company in Russia. His duties include tasting, quality control of the raw materials and…
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From Pagoda to Tea Bar. Hoài Linh Nguyễn’s Tea Journey
In 2018, Hoài Linh Nguyễn won Tea Masters Cup International in the Tea Pairing category and successfully performed in the Tea Preparation category of the same tournament. In fact, during the…
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