Weekly Tea Bits: Rishi, memory, gimhae & gongfu
by Brandice Schnabel (Subscribe to Brandice Schnabel's posts)
Posted Jul 21st 2008 10:01AM
Filed under: Teas, On the Blogs, Lists, Food News
Rishi is putting Milwaukee on the world tea mapRishi took home seven first place awards at the recent World Tea Expo. They are definitely doing something right, and I personally recommend their Jade Cloud tea.
Cup of tea may ease memory problemsIt turns out that the flavinoids in tea may actually help ease symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases, and there seems to the possibility that flavinoids in tea may help repair the damage, not just stop it.
A test in the art of gimhae style tea bowlsTeaware geeks will enjoy this write up by MattCha about Korean style gimhae tea bowls, complete with a brief history of this teaware style and several pictures of some very nice bowls.
32 Gongfu Tea TablesThis is a great article on gongfu tea tables, with in-depth comparisons that you really won't find anywhere else. It's very cool of the author to share all the info collected while on his own quest for hte perfect gongfu tea table. Bookmark this one if you ever want to get into gongfu tea preparation!
Tags: awards, brandice, flavinoids, gongfu, list, memory, news, rishi, tea, tea bowls, TeaBowls, teaware, world tea expo, WorldTeaExpo
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