Tag: What-Cha Tea

  • Dark Tea from Burma/Myanmar

    No one likes to talking about Burma . . . or Myanmar . . . or whatever it’s calling itself, now. Even the name of the country is a hotly contested issue. At college parties, whenever some Eastern Philosophy major brought up Buddhism as an example of a nonviolent religion, all someone had to do…

  • 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…