In today’s first note, I wanted to share a fantastic post I found on Buddhism and Tea over at Hong Tea Dao! It’s amazingly insightful with lots of tasty delicious knowledge!

Stash Teas’ annual Guide To Bead And Breakfast Inns is around again this year. Inns participating in the program provide one night’s stay free when you book at least one night.

Botanical Bakery is offering some wonderful looking Fennel Pollen tea cookies inspired by the unfortunate passing of the owner’s father.

My friends over at The Village Tea Company are opening their first brick and mortar location! You should totally head out and support them if you’re in Dallas area!

If you buy gas for your favorite costly sipper or guzzler… and I’m sure most of us do… then drop by your local BP station and support their new private label bottled Ready to Drink (RTD) tea line! World Tea News has the scoop!

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Thursday is News, History & Culture Day

Welcome to your weekly news post here on Tea-Guy. This week you get a taste of machine-made southern sweet tea, learn about connections between White Tea and the life cycle of certain types of celulite (fat).

1. Nutrition & Metabolism has posted the results of a study regarding links between white tea extracts and the life cycles of certain types of fat cells. An interesting read, if somewhat dry.
2. I didn’t realize this while I was in Las Vegas for the World Tea Expo a couple weeks back… but QTrade Teas & Herbs has introduced their first Taiwanese tea. This is a wonderful step for one of the finest wholesale suppliers!
3. Hammacher Schlemmer, the oldest U.S. based catalogue company, has released an electric sweet tea brewer. It apparently uses both loose and bagged teas, allows you to customize the desired level of sweetness and produces up to 2 quarts (8 cups) of readily drinkable sweet tea in ten minutes! It does this by brewing the tea at 204° Fahrenheit and adding your selected amount of sugar. It apparently does allow for brewing unsweetened tea as well. I hope to review this in the not-all-too-distant future.
4. Lindsey Goodwin of both World Tea News and VeeTea has a wonderful question and answer session posted with Iman Hakim regarding tea and health. I recommend giving it a read through!

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