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		<title>The Wonders of Teabagging Machines</title>
		<link>http://englishtea.us/2013/05/18/the-wonders-of-teabagging-machines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 13:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.C. Cargill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though I don&#8217;t use teabags, the machines that make them fascinate me. Imagine a machine that takes the processed tea leaves and dumps a small amount into a little bag, adds a string, adds a tag, and does this by the thousands. Wow! Of course, teabagging machines are part of a line of machines [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishtea.us&#038;blog=6112069&#038;post=21033&#038;subd=tasteofenglishtea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taste Beats Price &#8211; Amen!</title>
		<link>http://englishtea.us/2013/05/18/taste-beats-price-amen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 13:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William I. Lengeman III</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I drink tea for the taste. Nothing else. Although I&#8217;m perfectly fine with all those other reasons why people drink tea. Maybe it&#8217;s good for my health in some ways and it seems to give me a boost and whatever else. But I wouldn&#8217;t bother drinking it if it didn&#8217;t taste good. Which is why [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishtea.us&#038;blog=6112069&#038;post=21093&#038;subd=tasteofenglishtea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Kettle Philosophy — Going “By the Book”</title>
		<link>http://englishtea.us/2013/05/17/tea-kettle-philosophy-going-by-the-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.C. Cargill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The water is heating. The scones are baking (and smelling so good!). The teapot is prepped and waiting. Time for my mind to go wondering. The whole concept of going “by the book” was what popped into my tea-deprived brain. It was a phrase that could either instill confidence or fear of over-rigidity. The phrase [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishtea.us&#038;blog=6112069&#038;post=21030&#038;subd=tasteofenglishtea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ORGANIC TEA &#8211; Great Reassurance or Just Another Word In The Marketing Jungle? Part 3</title>
		<link>http://englishtea.us/2013/05/17/organic-tea-great-reassurance-or-just-another-word-in-the-marketing-jungle-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[See Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. Reading through the first two parts of this article, which had been planned as a 2-part article only, it came to me that two quite significant aspects regarding organic tea cultivation and organic certification of teas are missing there: once, the question of at which point [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishtea.us&#038;blog=6112069&#038;post=21083&#038;subd=tasteofenglishtea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teapot Styles — Typically American</title>
		<link>http://englishtea.us/2013/05/16/teapot-styles-typically-american/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 13:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.C. Cargill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Teawares and Equipment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To say that anything is typically American, even teapot styles, is to discount about 99% of the country. (I should clarify that I am using “American” here in the widespread meaning of referring to us “Yanks,” that is, citizens of the United States. Sorry, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America!) We come from such [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishtea.us&#038;blog=6112069&#038;post=21063&#038;subd=tasteofenglishtea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Brooke Teapot &#38; Cover Set</media:title>
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		<title>The Teaist Manifesto</title>
		<link>http://englishtea.us/2013/05/16/the-teaist-manifesto/</link>
		<comments>http://englishtea.us/2013/05/16/the-teaist-manifesto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 13:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William I. Lengeman III</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last book column I wrote for this site I made mention of a book I&#8217;d run across that had to do with coffee, of all things. Let me once again make it perfectly clear that I have not gone over to the dark side. I&#8217;m pretty sure that I&#8217;ll be a tea drinker [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishtea.us&#038;blog=6112069&#038;post=21106&#038;subd=tasteofenglishtea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hubby Tea Experiment #29</title>
		<link>http://englishtea.us/2013/05/15/hubby-tea-experiment-29/</link>
		<comments>http://englishtea.us/2013/05/15/hubby-tea-experiment-29/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.C. Cargill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Preparing Tea and Herbals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hubby has been known to conduct on occasion some … uh, well, for lack of a better term I’ll call them “experiments” with tea. Tea experiment #29 was a doozy, so I had to share it here. It all started so innocently. The teapot was empty. (Side note: empty teapots are the source of the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishtea.us&#038;blog=6112069&#038;post=20965&#038;subd=tasteofenglishtea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recent and Upcoming Tea Books IV</title>
		<link>http://englishtea.us/2013/05/15/recent-and-upcoming-tea-books-iv/</link>
		<comments>http://englishtea.us/2013/05/15/recent-and-upcoming-tea-books-iv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William I. Lengeman III</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was gearing up to write the latest edition of this column I thought I would browse through Amazon&#8217;s Kindle store, looking for books on a certain topic (first two guesses don&#8217;t count). As I did so, I found myself amazed and slightly befuddled at how many versions there are of Kakuzo Okakura&#8217;s influential [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishtea.us&#038;blog=6112069&#038;post=20996&#038;subd=tasteofenglishtea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is It a Tea Garden, Plantation, or Estate?</title>
		<link>http://englishtea.us/2013/05/14/is-it-a-tea-garden-plantation-or-estate/</link>
		<comments>http://englishtea.us/2013/05/14/is-it-a-tea-garden-plantation-or-estate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 13:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.C. Cargill</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[tea estate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick look around the internet will show you that when it comes to the word used to describe land where tea is grown, there is no consensus. You’ll see tea gardens, tea plantations, tea estates, tea plots, and so on. Is any one of these right or preferred? Official Definitions A very official source [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishtea.us&#038;blog=6112069&#038;post=20962&#038;subd=tasteofenglishtea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Forth into a Summer of Tea</title>
		<link>http://englishtea.us/2013/05/14/spring-forth-into-a-summer-of-tea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 13:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William I. Lengeman III</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to tea, certain seasons are known for certain things. I&#8217;m drawing a blank when it comes to autumn and winter, though it&#8217;s safe to say those are times when the warming qualities of a nice hot cup of tea are much appreciated. We are currently passing through spring, perhaps best known for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=englishtea.us&#038;blog=6112069&#038;post=21024&#038;subd=tasteofenglishtea&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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