Found another great tea shop, drank some more superb teas — this time north of San Diego in Del Mar, Calif. The local tea-meetup gathere...

Every now and then, I run into posted recipes for tea soup. The variations are myriad, but the best ones, in my experience, center on green...

We recently moved across the country, which meant several days shacking up with hospitable, patient family and friends as well as crummy li...

I don't do a lot of reviewing on this site, but here are some splendid teas I've been drinking recently ... Stash Tea's organic ...

Who woulda thunk the tea experience one day would include Geiger counters? World Tea News reported this week that the Japanese government ...

Rishi Tea was recently in Chicago, offering a tea tasting at the Metropolis Roasting Garage (an airy warehouse space in Andersonville where ...

Splendid new teahouse discovery, via the Chicago Tea Lovers Meetup group ! Nada Tea & Coffee House is one of those places I've been...

This is a photo, believe it or not, of an epiphany. We write our little tea blogs and we hang out with tea people and we get on a first-name...

We've stocked the black-eyed peas and mustard greens for our New Year's Day repast. We're not bad-off like many others we know, ...

I'm in love with this video (shared via the Facebook tea group ) with some good information about Japanese green tea. Got some down time...

My quest for some tea from the Azores — the Atlantic islands due west of Portugal, and governed by that once pioneering tea country — was fi...

It's already chilly in Chicago. This morning had a definite autumnal bite, and after walking the dog the flip-flops were put away for th...

A note leftover from our summer travels: One other item I purchased at the Sing Tehus in Copenhagen was a packet of Green Kiss tea drops. T...

A month away, welcome back, all. What have I been doing in the meantime? Sweating and hiking through Lollapalooza , for one. I bring this up...

We recently returned from more than two weeks in northern Europe, cruising through the ports of the Baltic Sea: Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsi...

Afternoon tea requires good tea, good food, a lovely setting and, ideally, charming company. A cocktail doesn't hurt, either. Last Frida...

This weekend we enjoyed a Saturday afternoon lunch on Chicago's famed Devon Avenue , which features several blocks of Indian restaurants...

•• You know your chain is too big when your primary competitor has become McDonald's. That's what's happened now to Starbucks, w...

It's a weird winter when my native Oklahoma has had significantly more snow than my current Chicago home. But we're finally due a bi...