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Where do you generally buy your tea?
I'm from Paris (France) and I buy teas from Betjeman And Barton. No doubt it's one of the most prestigious tea merchant (the first shop settled in Paris in 1919). My favorite teas are their Formose...
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Antioxidant content and multiple infusions
As I understand it, almost all of the caffeine in green tea will be dissolved in the first infusion, and so any following infusions will have no caffeine. Does the same happen with antioxidants too?...
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Second yixin teapot and king 913 oolong tea
I bought a new red yixin teapot and King 913 Oolong tea to brew in it. When I bought the tea I did not know it had ginseng and would not have purchased if I did. This frustated me because the english...
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A Tea Addicts Strange Compulsion
Hi ALl, Its me once again starting a new thread!!! I just wanted to mention that in addition to having a tea addiction and by no means does this counter insert with that of a caffeine addiction I...
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Contradiction
A puzzlement. All my long tea-drinking life, I had read and heard that tea leaves perform best when unencumbered by tea balls or small insert-infusers. (I guess that's also why infusers themselves...
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Where to find >3-min sandglass?
Using an egg timer to brew black teas has really made a difference over just wandering off for a while. (Electronic timers don't seem to fit the aesthetic.) I've only found 3-minute timers in kitchen...
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new book about tea
Tea: Addiction, Explotation and Empire by Roy Moxham ... from the site ... Roy Moxham is Conservator of the University of London Library and a teacher in the University's Institute of English Studies....
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Pointer to the FAQ and Vendor Lists
The FAQ is posted four times each year. It can also be found on the World Wide Web at the following URLs: My tea page has an extensive list (over 100 at last count) of vendors with Web sites. You can...
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Green Tea Raises Serotonin Levels
Hi Everyone, I remember recently doing a search on one of the search engines out there for green tea +serotonin just as a random search as I jokingly thinking "I wonder if Green tea can profess the...
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tea addicts
Hi Everyone, DOes anyone here consider themselves a tea addict??? I myself have gone into the upper limits of up to 14-16 teas in one day but I don't often do that. I usually stay in between 2-8 teas...
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OT: Cancelling a Usenet message
In a thread above, I mistakenly called Candie, "Cindy". I immediately canceled the message and re-sent a corrected one. Yet, when my wife checked the NG about an hour later on her computer, the...
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My first use of Yixing teapot
I am relativly new to tea drinking and my newly purchased yixing teapot seems to add more body and earthyness to my pu-erh tea. I seasoned it before use by submerging it in a pot of pu-erh tea for 15...
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Yamamotoyama tea gives me a headache
Hi Everyone, Has anyone tried Yamamotoyama tea (Genmai-Cha type) or the Brown Rice with Green tea kind??? I've recently bought it from a chinese supermarket and the tea bags come in aluminum sealed...
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identifying Tea Set
I am looking for help to identify a tea set I recently bought. It consists of a Tea Pot, Cream Bowl and Sugar Bowl. Itis slightly off white and all the items have silver edging. The tea pot has a...
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How do I shop for tea ?
Hi I am new here and I normally frequent the newsgroup but I am also interested in adding tea to my hobbies. I notice that some sites sell tea in bricks and buttons ??? (what is a button????) and...
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