Tag: Russian tea
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Ivan Chai through Time
If there is one prediction I never would have made for this blog in 2020, it’s that I would spend at least five articles talking about one plant. Okay . . . true, there are four hundred articles here that talk about Camellia sinensis, but this year, I started a saga on Chamerion angustifolium. Also…
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Revisiting Russian Tea Gardens
I’ve written a lot about Russian tea gardens over the last couple of years. But I didn’t think, for one second (at the time), that I was one of the only English language sources on the subject. That is, until I got a message from Thomas Tomporowski of Tea in the City, a vendor op located…
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Russian Dark Tea
Russians love tea. Like . . . really love tea. Even the British and Irish look at the Russian love affair with tea and say, “Would you kindly tone it down?” I learned of this secondhand when I was doing research a couple of years ago on tea grown in Russia. Not exactly sure how…
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Russian Tea Finds You
I can’t remember when this quest began, but it all started with a random Google search. It was probably in the Fall of 2010, and I ran across an article about Russian tea. What astounded me was that there was mention of Soviet-run tea plantations. That immediately got me digging. Russia has a long-standing love…