The Tea Detective
Uncovering and Exploring the Facts About Tea
Uncovering and Exploring the Facts About Tea
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| America's Favorite Summer Drink is Born |
| It's hard to imagine summer without a tall, cold glass of iced tea. But did you know that the creation of iced tea rested on a spur of the moment decision to improvise? It's true-and here's how it happened. |
| For more information or to learn more about tea, visit our other pages: No time to brew-grab a glass of instant or bottle of ready to drink tea. Following the creation of iced tea, it took nearly half a century for instant tea mix and bottled and canned ready to drink teas to make their debut. Now days they're easy to find in any number of flavors and variations. How do I choose the right tea for me? Buying loose leaf tea for the first time can be confusing, but we've taken the work out of it for you. With lots of helpful tips and information, we've turned confusing into confident. How can I tell if the tea I'm buying is fresh, quality tea, at a fair price? Check out these handy tips for buying loose leaf tea before shopping online, by mail order, or from your local specialty tea shop. What is Fair Trade and how does it work? The origins of the early Fair Trade program and the organizations that helped to develop it and are considered to be the founding fathers of Fair Trade. Brewing Loose Leaf Tea Easy step-by-step instructions and a few helpful tips will have you brewing the perfect cup or pot of tea the first time, every time. Scented teas are a fragrant and refreshing treat for the taste buds. Having been perfected by the Chinese many centuries ago, these delicate, refreshing, and relaxing teas are not only tasty, but sport many health benefits as well. Organic teas aren't just good for you, but Mother Earth, too. Learn how organic teas are grown, and how to ensure the tea you're buying is certified organic by the country it was grown in. So who is Earl Grey, anyway? Earl Grey is probably the most recognizable of blended teas, but there are many other tasty blends that make the perfect beginning or finish to your day. The many health benefits of drinking tea. If after drinking a cup of tea you seem to feel better, it's not your imagination. Tea contains a long list of beneficial ingredients, including vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that help fight everything from colds and flu, to cancer and heart disease. Tea bags - versatility, quality, and convenience all in one. Learn the history behind the handy, versatile tea bag, and why it's no longer considered to be the poor cousin of loose leaf tea. |
| Sun Tea - Go Green With This Classic Iced Tea Recipe |
| Sun Tea Heres an opportunity to brew up a fresh gallon of iced tea, using solar power. That's right, all you need is a clean gallon jar, cold water, tea bags, and a few hours in the sun and you'll have a gallon of iced tea, or Sun Tea, as it was called in the 70's. Here's what you'll need: A clean gallon jar with a cover, 16 to 18 tea bags 1) Place the tea bags in jar and fill with fresh, cold water. 2) Place cover on jar, capping loosely, and place in direct sunlight for 3 1/2 to 4 hours, until desired strength 3) Remove tea bags 4) Refrigerate until properly cooled. 5) Serve in tall glasses over ice, sweeten to taste, and garnish with a wedge of lemon (or add a fresh sprig of mint). You can play with this recipe, using different flavors of tea, strength, steeping times, etc. |
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| In the summer of 1904 at the St. Louis Worlds Fair, a group of Indian tea producers set up a special tea pavilion in an effort to market their India black tea. Back then most of the tea drunk in the U.S. was green tea, so this was going to be something new, and the Indians thought they'd have no problem attracting the attention of the curious Americans with their new type of tea. The one thing they hadn't considered, though, was the temperature. Under the supervision of an Englishman named Richard Blechynden, the Indians offered up their cups of hot tea to the fair goers who walked right on by, not the least bit interested in hot drinks. |
| Some Like it Hot - Some Like it Cold |
| With the temperatures soaring, the sweltering masses sought out cold drinks, hurrying by the near empty tea booth. But Mr. Blechynden wasn't about to be stymied. Well aware of hot tea's thirst quenching qualities, he knew that if he could just get the Americans to stop long enough to try the tasty black tea, they'd be sold. So, he made a quick decision. If it was cold drinks the Americans wanted, it's cold drinks they would get. Packing ice into glasses, he poured the hot tea in...and voila', iced tea was born. Word spread like wildfire through the fairgrounds about the new cold drink that just had to be tried, and the ever curious ready-to-try-anything Americans quickly got into line for iced tea. It wasn't long before they agreed that it was the perfect drink for a hot summer's day. Iced tea caught the fancy of millions of Americans, and by 1992 they were drinking one-and-a-half to two billion gallons per year, totalling nearly eighty percent of all tea drunk in the U.S.. With so many more flavors and choices available today, I'm sure we drink many times that amount of both hot and cold teas per year. And to find your favorite flavor of fresh, quality teas I recommend a visit to Silver Leaf Tea Company. Their Green Lemonaide, Passion Fruit, and Peach Tea flavors brew up a refreshing, thirst quenching drink, guaranteed to cool you down on a hot summer day. And the health benefits you derive from tea make it the healthier choice over sodas and energy drinks. Brew up a cold, fresh jug and add it to your picnic or outdoor barbecue for a refreshing change of pace. And compared glass to glass with soft drinks, you'll be saving a ton of money. And that's always a good thing. Enjoy. |
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