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There was a brief moment, in 2002 or so, when Eight Treasure Tea  (Ba Bao Cha) was all the rage in Beijing. It was a beautiful fad. In honor of this, the following post has been broken down into eight sections.

Green Eyebrow and White Peony Teas are back in stock, woo hoo! Our cup now runneth over where these two are concerned, and we don't intend to run out again.

We spent this past weekend at the Common Ground Country Fair, giving out samples, talking tea, and generally enjoying ourselves immensely.

Hunter goes long on the history of Gunpowder tea, the derivation of its name, and what the Moroccans do with it.

If a picture is worth a thousand words then what we have here is a whole book about drinking tea...

In China, one of the customary greetings is still “sit down, have some tea,” and in Northern China this tea is most often jasmine.