Tea, Food and Recipes.

Pu’erh teas are aged or fermented teas.

Darjeeling tea is tea from this district in West Bengal India called the Darjeeling district. This area is in the Himalayas. It’s tea grown here. The soil and climate is such that the teas created here have an taste that gives it the distinction of being referred to as the “champagne of teas”. The flavour of Darjeeling teas go well with custard, eggs, grilled fish, curries and fresh fruit. So pretty much everything! There are 87 tea gardens, as they are called, places that grow tea in this area. These tea estates cover over 17500hectares of land and produce over 9 million kilograms of tea per year and employ over 50 percent of the people in this Darjeeling district.

It seems that originally matcha was very precious and produced in small quantities so that only nobility and shogun were able to drink it. However, in 1738 someone names Sohen Nagatani invented the uji green tea processing method. Another blog article, perhaps? This allowed for a more efficient process to create matcha. Now it was readily accessible to the general population and more people starting consuming matcha. Prior to this the general population would drink a drink called Bancha (Houjicha) which was brown in colour and much more bitter.

What does it mean for a tea to be white?  Aren’t they all some shade of brown, darker or lighter?  It seems that white tea […]

ome teas do indeed have caffeine but how much compared to your average cup of coffee? There are studies that have said that tea leaves contain more caffeine than coffee beans. That doesn’t sound good. But there are some benefits to caffeine in small doses. Teas that do not have caffeine shouldn’t be confused with decaffeinated teas. A decaffeinated tea is a tea that had caffeine in it originally but the caffeine has been removed.