Category Archive for 'Teamoods'

Ito En Study: Green Tea Inhibits Swine Flu

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Tags: Health Muse, Indian Tea, Tea, Teamoods

Happy New Year

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on [...]

Savory and Sweet Tea Lunch @ Jin Patisserie

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

This is an interesting article regarding an unusual Tea Lunch menu and Teas served and aptly named “Sweet tea Lunch”. The menu is appealing and we are sure that the concept will bring about a new age pattern in Tea Culture. Ofcourse ther has been the concept of Afternoon Tea, Evening Tea but [...]

Quoteable Moments

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Enjoy life sip by sip not gulp by gulp.
- The Minister of Leaves
Tags: Teamoods

HOT SPOTS IN THE POT

Friday, May 30th, 2008

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The History of Japanese Green Tea

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

 805 A.D
A Buddhist monk returning from China in 805 A.D. brought green tea seeds to Japan. The seeds had been collected from Mt. Tiantai in the Zhejiang Province. Only the affluent could afford the beverage in the beginning. The drinking of tea soon became popular among all of the people. Japan grows green tea and [...]

DOCUMENTARY OF TEA IN 350 A.D.

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

The first documented reference to tea came in 350 A.D. when Chinese scholar Kuo P’o wrote about “k’ut’u”, a medicinal beverage “made from the leaves by boiling”. By the fifth century A.D., tea became a major bartering tool for China.
It also became a popular social custom for China’s elite, with the Imperial House and Buddhist [...]