India is famous for its excellent tea producing regions, where the likes of Assam, Darjeeling and Nilgiri tea, are grown for tea enjoyers all over the world. However, there is another region, equally exquisite in its quality of tea, whose legacy was shrouded by a natural disaster from which it was never able to recover, and that is Kangra tea.
Tieguanyin, or Iron Goddess of Mercy, is one of the most prestigious and renowned varieties of Chinese Oolong tea with a fabled history. Originating in the Anxi region of the Fujian province of China in the 19th century, the tea boasts a variety of complex flavor profiles depending on its
We all know about black tea and green tea, and most of us, avid tea drinkers or not, have heard of rooibos, white, oolong or herbal tea. But what about purple tea? Only in recent years has tea made from purple leaves been on the market commercially, and it remains
The Ancient Tea Horse Road, sometimes referred to as the Southern Silk Road, is a millennia-old network of paths that connect Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, to the Yunnan and Sichuan provinces of South-Western China. Since the 6th century, the unforgiving and harsh route was used to trade all kinds
Tea has a very important place in Vietnamese culture; the consumption of tea has been an integral part of Vietnam for centuries, tea sits near the top of the list of their export products, and Vietnam boasts some of the oldest living tea plants in the world. Perhaps its most
Although it does not produce its own tea, the North African country of Morocco is one of the largest consumers and therefore importers of tea in the world. Even more so, there is a variety of tea, Moroccan Mint Tea (or Maghrebi mint tea) that has become almost symbolic for
For thousands of years the cannabis sativa plant has been heralded for its healing properties by a wide variety of cultures across the globe. However, only in more recent years, with cannabis becoming legal or tolerated in increasingly more places, has the use of CBD (Cannabidiol, one of its active
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