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Adventures in the Global Kitchen: Silk Road and Tea

March 24, 2010 By Tea Enthusiast Leave a Comment

Enjoy a spectacular Tea-Tasting, TODAY!!! Taste a selection of teas and learn about modern variations. This program is part of a series of tastings and lectures for adults and educational programming for children that are being offered at The American Museum of Natural History [...]

Tea Sommeliers

December 2, 2009 By Tea Enthusiast Leave a Comment

Many tea lovers and enthusiasts become tea experts and sommeliers. But this distinction doesn’t happen overnight. It takes rigorous training. Tea Sommeliers are usually employed by fine restaurants, hotels and tea rooms to sample, recommend and pour different teas and tisanes for eager guests [...]

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The American Tea Room

November 25, 2009 By Tea Enthusiast 1 Comment

Looking for gourmet loose leaf tea and a variety of tea accessories? The American Tea Room, an online tea boutique from Beverly Hills Le Palais Gourmet was introduced this week to take advantage of the holiday shopping season [...]

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November Tea Events at UCLA Fowler Museum

November 6, 2009 By Tea Enthusiast Leave a Comment

The Steeped in History: The Art of Tea Exhibit at UCLA’s Fowler Museum is winding to a close; but during its last month here are some great events to celebrate the art of tea [...]

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Tea and Empire at the Fowler Museum

October 2, 2009 By Tea Enthusiast 1 Comment

Britain’s ever-increasing appetite for tea brought enormous profit to the British Crown and to the East India Company. This section of Steeped in History: The Art of Tea Exhibit at the UCLA Fowler Museum explores tea as a global commodity at the height of the British Empire, the development of large-scale tea plantations in northern India, and the link between tea and the Indian opium trade [...]

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Fowler Exhibition Tells Story of the Tea Craze in the West

September 18, 2009 By Tea Enthusiast 1 Comment

Steeped in History: The Art of Tea Exhibit continues to bring tea enthusiasts history and art by telling the story of the tea craze in the West. When tea first arrived in Europe in the early 17th century, it was not readily accepted. Tea drinking caught on quickly, however, in The Netherlands, where the import arrived along with Chinese and Japanese porcelain vessels for its preparation and serving [...]

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The Way of Tea in Japan

September 4, 2009 By Tea Enthusiast 2 Comments

UCLA’s Fowler Museum explores tea’s enormous significance in Japan at the Steeped in History: The Art of Tea Exhibit beginning August 16-November 29, 2009. Along with Buddhism, tea was first introduced during the early Heian period (794–1185) by monks who had traveled to China to study Chan (Zen) Buddhism [...]