Slow Mo Guys - Slow Motion Cup of Tea

Here's yet another slow motion tea video. This one is from the Slow Mo Guys, who specialize in this sort of thing and who have numerous other slow motion videos at their YouTube page.

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Who Poisoned Whose Tea?

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...

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Tea Making Tips

Here's an interesting curiosity from the British Film Institute. It's an instructional video about tea from nearly 70 years ago.



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Charleston Tea Plantation Video

Charleston Tea Plantation from Jean M Feller on Vimeo.

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Old Tea Machines at the Punjana Factory

Thanks again to teadog.com, where I first ran across this one.

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Tea Bag Rocket Science Experiment

It really should go without saying, but if you're going to try this one at home, exercise a great deal of caution.



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Alexander McCall Smith and George Orwell Talk Tea

Here's another article I recently wrote for The English Tea Store blog.

Alexander McCall Smith and George Orwell Talk Tea
By William I. Lengeman III

One of the many things I’ve discovered in the years I’ve been writing about tea is that the British have strong opinions when it comes to this topic. In 1946, just three years before writing his most famous work (1984), British author George Orwell set forth some of his strong opinions on tea in A Nice Cup of Tea, an essay that’s still much quoted to this day. More about that one in my previous article.

I’m not sure exactly what qualifies as British, but given that author Alexander McCall Smith was born in a British colony in Africa and how resides in Scotland, I guess it puts him in the same ballpark. Smith, who was born two years after...

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Tea Party in Super Slow Motion

Since the theme has been slow motion and tea lately, here's another video we aired a little while back. Caution - some teaware (and other stuff) was harmed in the making of this video.



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World's Largest Sweet Tea

Chick-fil-A Sets Guinness World Record With World's Largest Sweet Tea
(from a press release)

On Wednesday, Aug. 4, Tulsa-area Chick-fil-A restaurants set a Guinness World Record by creating the world's largest sweet iced tea. A nine-foot tall cup held more than 1,140 gallons of freshly brewed sweet tea and ice. The record was set during an all-day celebration at Nienhuis Park in Broken Arrow, Okla.

Operators and team members from five Chick-fil-A restaurants worked with volunteers from schools, churches and community groups throughout the Tulsa area to create the record-setting drink. The process required 72 pounds of tea leaves, 1,150 pounds of sugar, one ton of ice and 912 gallons of water.

Official Guinness World Records adjudicator Kimberly Partrick presided over the event and officially called the record. The achievement marks the second Guinness World Record for Tulsa Chick-fil-A Operator Arthur Greeno, who set the record for world's largest soft drink when he created an 834-gallon cup of freshly-squeezed Chick-fil-A lemonade in 2008.

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Indie Tea arTEAsan Spice Rub - What A Jerk

Indie Tea arTEAsan Spice Rub - What A Jerk
(from a press relase)

Who knew that tea could do so much for a casual barbecue get together. What A Jerk arTEAsan Spice Rub will definitely heat things up with its delicious and spicy combination of organic ingredients. Created with a base of Assam black tea, itʼs then blended with habanero infused sea salt, onion, garlic, allspice, thyme, smoked paprika, black pepper, cinnamon, clove, ginger and nutmeg.

In addition to grilling with these rubs, they are also wonderful as an addition to roasted veggies, chili, soups, or just to spice up your scrambled eggs. It gives a whole new meaning to the words, “Afternoon Tea”.

Indie Tea’s collection of arTEAsan Spice Rubs also includes, Old Smokey, Coming Up Lemons, Hey Mambo and Magic Mushroom, so there’s something for everyone.

So the next time one of your dinner guests yells out, “What A Jerk!”, you’ll know you did something right.

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Tea Tourism Revisited

Here's another article I recently wrote for The English Tea Store blog.

Tea Tourism Revisited
By William I. Lengeman III

I’m pretty sure there are no statistics available on the topic, but I’d be willing to bet that tea tourism doesn’t quite stack up against other types of specialty tourism – at least not yet. To quote one of the authors of a recent article on tea tourism in India, as mentioned below, “It’s not a particularly well-organized pocket of the industry, but more tea estates, also called gardens, are opening their properties to guests interested not only in their product and how it comes to be, but in the unique world of tea planters, the ‘burra sahibs,’ and their domain.”

For some previous articles on the topic at this site take a look at our Esteemed Editor’s take on being a...

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Breville -- Cupping Tea with Rishi's Joshua Kaiser

Joshua Kaiser, the CEO of Rishi Tea, demonstrates the international standard for cupping tea.

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Tetley Tea Commercial From 1980s

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All In This Tea & An RIP

Filmmaker Les Blank helped to bring us All In This Tea, among other things. More about Blank, who recently passed on, in his New York Times obituary.

As for the film, here's a clip and a brief description.

A feature documentary by Les Blank and Gina Leibrecht that follows the world-renowned American tea importer, David Lee Hoffman, to some of the most remote regions of China in search of the finest, handmade teas in the world.

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Silly Animated Tetley Commercial

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Doctor Who's Matt Smith Talks Tea

From the BBC show, Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea. More about it here.

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The American Tea Ceremony

The American Tea Ceremony, which is modeled after the Chinese and Japanese tea cultures, is an opportunity to sit down, put cellphones and other electronic gadgets aside, and have tea with those most important to you in your life: your family, friends, and business associates. For more information go to http://teamasters.org.

Godzilla Drinks Tea Commercial (Singapore)

If you ever find yourself menaced by a Godzilla-like monster here's one strategy that might help. The commercial is for Heaven and Earth green tea, which is apparently a product of Coca-Cola Singapore.



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Spring Tea Underwater Commercial (Israel)

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Funny Tea Commercial (Pakistan)

A humorous commercial for Qamar tea. Which probably works a lot better if you speak the language.



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The Levels of Tea Experience

Here's another article I recently wrote for The English Tea Store blog.

The Levels of Tea Experience
By William I. Lengeman III

All due respect and perhaps apologies are due to William James, who wrote an influential book just over a century ago, called The Varieties of Religious Experience. You can approach tea from many different directions and there’s hardly one true and proper path. But like most things in life, you typically have to start at the bottom and work your way up through the ranks.

Novice - Most tea drinkers start here, although if you grow up in one of those countries where tea is integral to the culture, you’ve already got a leg up on most of us. Growing up in a suburban middle-class American home, my notion of tea was this weird powdery stuff that you scooped from a big jar and added to water. Is it any wonder...

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