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		<title>Offbeat News &amp; Gadgets</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great wide world of tea is not a particularly strange one, as these things go, but there are enough offbeat tidbits of news and quirky gadgets to merit a brief piece of this sort now and again. It&#8217;s been a while since the last one so hang onto your hats. Here we go. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishtea.us&amp;blog=6112069&amp;post=15031&amp;subd=tasteofenglishtea&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tea People — Steven Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last article I wrote for this site (though publication schedules won&#8217;t necessarily reflect it) was a profile of Thomas Twining, the man responsible for creating the company that became Twinings of London. It&#8217;s company that&#8217;s survived and thrived for more than three hundred years now, a considerable feat given the whopping number of businesses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishtea.us&amp;blog=6112069&amp;post=15112&amp;subd=tasteofenglishtea&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Green Tea and HFCS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times have been kind of tough lately for high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a substance which has been coming under fire over the course of the past few years. The popular and rather ubiquitous sweetener has been disparaged in certain quarters of late, with some blaming it for contributing to an increase in obesity, among [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishtea.us&amp;blog=6112069&amp;post=15125&amp;subd=tasteofenglishtea&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twenty Years in the Republic of Tea</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you need a gimmick to stand out in the great wide world of tea selling? There are many successful merchants whose continued existence disproves that notion. But a great gimmick probably doesn&#8217;t hurt, especially if it&#8217;s combined with a good product. Take the case of the Republic of Tea, for instance. While they offer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishtea.us&amp;blog=6112069&amp;post=15130&amp;subd=tasteofenglishtea&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Chinese Art of Tea&#8221; by John Blofeld</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, you could safely say that the art of tea and the Chinese art of tea were the same thing, given that the Chinese are credited with being the first people to drink our beloved beverage. But even though tea drinking eventually spread to other countries it&#8217;s worth noting that the Chinese [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishtea.us&amp;blog=6112069&amp;post=15234&amp;subd=tasteofenglishtea&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Popular Treatise on Tea&#8221; by John Sumner</title>
		<link>http://englishtea.us/2012/01/30/a-popular-treatise-on-tea-by-john-sumner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you head out to the Internet looking for tea books from yesteryear, you&#8217;ll find enough to keep you occupied for a very long time. I&#8217;ve written about quite a few such works in these very pages, but to the best of my recall I can&#8217;t think of one that was written by an author [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishtea.us&amp;blog=6112069&amp;post=14876&amp;subd=tasteofenglishtea&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Pioneers of Great Britain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British were not the first people to drink tea and they were not even the first Europeans to do so. They have never grown tea on their own soil, except in very modest amounts at one or two plantations, nor do they drink the most tea on a per capita basis. And yet when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishtea.us&amp;blog=6112069&amp;post=14887&amp;subd=tasteofenglishtea&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Honeybush: The Other Red &#8220;Tea&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://englishtea.us/2012/01/20/honeybush-the-other-red-tea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no such thing as red tea, at least not in the strictest sense of the word. But there are some beverages that have come to be referred to as &#8220;red tea&#8221; over the years and will probably continue to be referred to as such by anyone but the most exacting sticklers for accuracy. Take [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishtea.us&amp;blog=6112069&amp;post=14882&amp;subd=tasteofenglishtea&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yunnan Black Tea (Dian Hong)</title>
		<link>http://englishtea.us/2012/01/18/yunnan-black-tea-dian-hong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As much as I like a great cup of Chinese or Japanese green tea, I have to say that, for me, there&#8217;s nothing quite like black tea. I&#8217;ve said it many times before and I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll say it many more &#8211; for me Assam is the be all and end all when it comes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishtea.us&amp;blog=6112069&amp;post=14961&amp;subd=tasteofenglishtea&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Book of Tea&#8221; by Kakuzo Okakura</title>
		<link>http://englishtea.us/2012/01/10/the-book-of-tea-by-kakuzo-okakura/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve noted before, on more than a few occasions, the Internet and the trend toward digitizing old books has opened a whole new world of access to tea books from days gone by. But to be perfectly honest, with their somewhat dry style and specialized subject matter many of these books have languished in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishtea.us&amp;blog=6112069&amp;post=14890&amp;subd=tasteofenglishtea&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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