The Best of Tea

So you want to get your high tea on, huh?

Since this site is all about bringing you the best tea, it only seems prudent that I present you with the highest-rated teas available at the top online tea shops. This will likely be a regular feature as the ratings tend to shift over time — although there are some teas that will always receive [...]

June, if didn’t you know by now (shame on you!), is National Iced Tea Month! So here are some flavored tea recipes.

Seattle’s Post Intelligencer has six great ways to de-stress. Bet you can guess one of them.

You know that drinking wine can give you a buzz, but did you know fine teas can too? Speaking of buzz, how do you crack down on violent pub goers at last call? By playing classical music and handing out biscuits and hot tea of course. Tea Social. I haven’t explored this yet, but there [...]

Some have said that the best tea in the world cannot be found in China, India, Japan, or England, but rather in the teashop of Mariage Freres in Paris. And while I would not venture to make such a bold statement, I will say that their Marco Polo, a black flavored tea, is magnificent.

There is always something going on in the world of tea. Here’s a bit of the latest.

I have been enjoying a number of samples the good people at TheSimpleLeaf were kind enough to send over.

A new study out of the University of Florida shows that green tea extract is effective in lowering LDL cholesterol by 9 mg/DL after just 3 months, and was able to lower systolic and diastolic blood pressure by 5 and 4 mgHg respectively afer just 3 weeks.

When people workout, chances are they do it to burn calories. Why then do they drink a nearly equivalent number of calories after their workout “rehydrating” with a sports drink.

When I was a kid our neighbors had, what I considered to be, the coolest toy around: an in-sink hot water dispenser.