Gift ideas in the upcoming busy season for Brides, Grads, and Parents

Have some dietary restrictions but still want an extravagant Afternoon Tea? We've got some great ideas for you!

The classic companion to tea: the crumpet. Learn all about it and get a recipe to try it with the next tea-time!

Crafty and fun ideas to reuse tea tins that have accumulated anytime and especially after the Holidays!

Learn several different methods to making your own Masala Chai mix in the comfort of your home with fresh and fragrant Selefina spices!

It's that time of year when you might branch out of your comfort zone to create unique, creative feasts for your loved ones. Here's some ideas to bring them to the next level with tisanes!

An integral part of the tea drinking experience is the cup. Let's review the options, where to purchase, how to store and care for your budding collection!

It's time to start up the BBQ, so learn how to add some tea to your favorite proteins, fruits, and vegetables this summer!

Wanting to add an extra punch of flavor to your picnics this year? Try these four recipes to elevate your plate with tea!

With the weather finally warming up, outdoor tea parties are a must for people big and small. Here are some recommendations for children and adults alike!

A deep dive into borosilicate glass, what it is, where it comes from, and why we love it!

Trying to convert coffee lovers to tea? Try these suggestions to win them over and make a tea-lover out of them in no time!

A brief history of this boozy brew and two great tea-based recipes to warm up those chilly bones this winter!

A brief history on how tea fashion reflected the progression of women's rights through the late 19th century into the early 20th century.

Take dive into Senegal's tea culture and the ceremony of Ataya.

Entire books have been written about the drama, conflict, and greed involving clipper ships during the height of the 19th century. This article touches on mere highlights of the tea clipper trade between only China and the U.K. circa 1843 to 1869.

The basics you need to know before purchasing a new Yixing teapot! Learn the history, what Yixing clay is, how it's made, and how to use it all right here.

With temperatures starting to rise, iced teas are a great go-to to help beat the heat. Here are great ways to mix it up to keep your tastebuds buzzing all summer long!

A follow up to the Beginner's Guide to Cast Iron Teapots, focusing on cleaning and care for unglazed and glazed pots.

Perhaps no other style of teapot has endured for centuries like the indomitable cast iron pot. Learn more now!

One marked difference between Asian tea cups is they have no handles while Western cups have a looped handle on one side of the cup. Ever wonder why? Learn more here!

Stuck at home with a bunch of honey that needs eating? Learn some honey basics with Heather and try out some of her recipes!

Everything you need to know about Masala Chai. What it is, where it comes from, and an easy to follow recipe to make your own!

With Halloween just days away, we present a beginner's guide to nature's candy- honey!

Tea amps up savory dishes with umami flavor. Umami is what the Japanese call a fifth taste after sweet, salty, bitter, and sour. Use these tips to elevate any dish!

A deep dive into the kyusu style teapot. Take a look at which teas it's best for, how to prepare your tea with it, learning the all-important pour, and find out the traditional materials it's made from.

Those of you lucky to have backyards big enough to have a flower or vegetable garden, can take advantage of tea as an aid to growing better, more beautiful produce, flowers, and plants and know that you’re recycling, reusing, and replenishing at the same time.

Ever since the tea trade first tracked how the U.S. drinks tea, iced tea has been an overwhelming favorite beverage all year long.

Spring cleaning is a ritual that refreshes the home as it refreshes our spirit, and that goes for your tea paraphernalia and your tea supply too.

Sharing tea with friends today can still be a dress-up affair with a carefully crafted menu of either bakery-bought or homemade treats, especially for birthdays and celebrations like graduations or promotions, but we all know that casual and convenient are more likely to be the themes today because it’s so easy and fun to do.

‘Tis the season for celebrations, and nothing is more delicious or easier to prepare than a tea punch! Read on to discover two new tea-inspired recipes!

In the hustle and bustle of our lives, we all need a little moment of peace! Move over coffee break - it's tea's turn. Here's a list of ways to take a special moment each day with tea.

As the weather cools down, and we move inside more, its easy to be tempted by inviting, warm comfort foods! With the holidays fast approaching, here are 3 great recipes (with tea of course!) for healthy holiday meals and treats to share with your loved ones!

If you travel with tea-in-tow, you can sometimes find yourself lacking a brewing method! When you simply must have your tea, look in any kitchen for these items to brew a satisfying cuppa.

After more than four years of severe drought, harvests of rooibos are large enough for farmers in South Africa to meet the growing demand for this tisane throughout the world.

Don't you wish every time you’d like a cup of tea, you’d also have the time and tools to dedicate attention and precision to making the perfect cup? We do too! But we know that in the real world, it's not that easy! With a little time and planning, these tips can make your tea-travels more enjoyable!

What could be more fun than pairing two favorite food groups: Chocolate and Tea? Here’s how!

Cooking with tea is centuries’ old, yet even today, these techniques will add mystery and magic to any dish.

Of all the possible tisanes, perhaps none is as beneficial nor as delicious for children as chamomile or maybe peppermint or spearmint or raspberry and hibiscus or…

This year, let’s get personal, and match a gift to your guy that says you know what he loves. Amp it up beyond the golf balls and silk ties; say no to another grill utensil set, and absolutely no phone gadgets, he probably has them all anyway. Instead, think Vintage, Experience, and Love.

It is no small irony that Asian tea has become the go-to beverage to revolutionize the European-U.S. cheese flight. We offer a beginner’s guide of pairing teas from China, Japan, Taiwan, Ceylon, and India with cheese selections from the dairy producers of Great Britain, The Netherlands, Italy, France, and the U.S. (Yes, India does offer paneer, but it’s a modest cheese producer.)

Need an Accompaniment to Tea? Add Music! From famous tunes, to lesser-known songs, Heather helps us sing along to songs all about tea! Plus we know you're already humming the most famous one...

Like your tea on the sweet side? Your options to sweeten things up can seem endless: brown, white, turbinado, or artificial, honey, agave... and there’s plenty more where that cane from. Heather helps us break down our options!

Even though Spring weather is creeping in, we're just on the heels of the Winter Olympic Games, and may still have some winter fun to look forward to! Here are some delicious combinations for winter-time warming: Add our black teas to apples and pears in beverages and desserts for taste nirvana.

It is not fresh, but intentionally and carefully aged, sometimes for decades. It does come in loose leaf varieties but generally puerh comes in a compressed form: bricks, rounds, knobs, balls. It always begins as green tea despite its dark color. And, it is a signature tea from the province of Yunnan in mainland China.

A biscotti dunked into a coffee, a madeleine slipped into a cup of chamomile, a British biscuit doused in a cup of Earl Grey. What is it about dunking a cookie into liquid that has appeal around the world?

It is alleged that it was Shen Nung, the Emperor and herbalist of ancient China (2700 BC,) who first sipped a few leaves that had floated down from a nearby tree into a kettle of boiling water. Those leaves were green, fresh, and their intoxicating fragrance made the emperor curious enough to taste the resulting beverage. That was the beginning of tea drinking in China but it wasn’t until the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907) that tea became the national drink of China.

What do these initials and words mean? And, why don’t all tea-growing countries use them? Of the more than 35 countries which produce tea, Sri Lanka (Ceylon) and India are the primary users of these designations in all their tea-growing areas to describe broken or full tea leaves, leaf position, and words for their appearance and fragrance.

Why a tea journal? It makes it so easy to refer back to your favorite teas, remind you where you bought them, and give you ideas for gifting tea-loving friends or family. Yes, you could use Excel or any other spreadsheet software to keep your tasting notes. But doesn’t that defeats the charm, and intimacy, of the tea experience?

One of the fascinations about true tea, that precious leaf of the Camellia sinensis, is its ability to relax the body, energize the spirit, and sharpen mind. What shall you apply all that energy to? The practice of meditation? A hike in the woods? The demands on your mental energy tackling the problems of work or volunteering? Dancing the night away?

Want to have a spooky-scary fun time for grown ups this Halloween? It's easy! Heather Edwards walks us through decor, making a pumpkin serving bowl, and whipping up an easy blood-red herbal tea-based Ghoul's Punch!

It's autumn, and the ever-seasonal crunchy leaves are underfoot! We decided to focus on our favorite leaves of all--tea leaves! Learn about the intriguing process tea leaves go through to be shaped into a variety of enticing styles.

Water quality can be affected by many factors. Here's an easy guide for ensuring you use the highest-quality, best-tasting water to brew your tea!

With school out, kids can certainly get restless. Here's some tips for no/low-tech summertime activities that can keep them occupied--involving tea!

While tea is widely acknowledged to have health benefits, but which benefits are those, exactly? Read to learn about recent research on the health effects of drinking tea.

Herbals benefit digestion and reduce pain when used as a tea. As a wash or paste, they ease a number of mild medical concerns from laryngitis to foot fungus.

In the sweltering summer of 1904, hot tea vendors at the St. Louis World's Fair were desperate to sell their brews, but nobody wanted a hot drink on an even hotter day. One clever man (the dispute continues about who it was) poured his tea over ice and, voila!, a classic American tea drink was born.

Every Mother's Day is an opportunity to celebrate the special women around you who have improved and enriched your life throughout the years. These "influencers" may or may not be related to you, but they're definitely part of the family of special people who have nurtured you. And that's more than enough reason to honor them on Mother's Day.

During the 17th and early 18th centuries, English and American wooden tea chests were designed with lock and key because both tea and sugar were luxuries like gold or sterling. Today, teas are modest to expensive yet sugar is ubiquitous and cheap whether made from sugar cane or sugar beets.

The intentionally aged tea, pu-erh, has been touted for generations as an aid to digestion and for cutting cholesterol in the body as it cuts grease on a cooking pan. Now scientists have discovered that it may also help to delay or reverse some symptoms of aging by increasing immunity, a critical factor in resisting infection, autoimmune disease, and other illnesses that can bring on aging or make aging more difficult.

You don't need to be clergy to be thankful for tea, as Rev. Smith's sentiments ring true even for the most dedicated atheist. This year, and every year, we at Adagio are thankful to YOU for our continued success.

Twenty-five years ago, if anyone mentioned "red tea", it meant only one thing: black tea from mainland China that shows a red infusion in the cup. Here's a quick and handy explanation of what the term "red tea" actually means - and to whom.

Spring cleaning isn't just for ridding yourself of never-worn clothes or book overload or all the objects we collect, wear out, tire of. It's also the time to look through the tea cupboard to prepare it for new selections from the vital spring season of newly-plucked fresh teas.

The luxury and elegance of chocolate make it a natural for gift-giving all-year round, but especially on the day of love, February 14th. Although it's mostly custom, even scientists admit there's something to chocolate's naturally-occurring chemicals, serotonin and phenylethylamine, that increase the feelings of excitement and energy and heighten the sensations of love and romance.