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		<title><![CDATA[How to Meditate While Drinking Tea]]></title><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 11:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Try this simple step by step process to discover a wonderful way to start the day.
1. Start the day slowly. Jumping out of the bed to start the day is very common, but we'd never expect our car to rev up cold, so why expect yourself to do this? Take it easy.
Observe how a cat wakes up from its sleep. It curls up and stretches awake. Even birds take a few seconds to take flight once woken up from sleep.
2. Reflect on some good thoughts first. This is a very refreshing way to begin. Those with kids will find it...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hojicha Cookies]]></title><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 13:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sunday morning, I made one of my favorite cookies - Hojicha cookies. Mellow roasted nut flavour of Hojicha(roasted Japanese green tea) goes well with cookies amazingly! They are very nice with a hot cup of tea(English breakfast, Assam, Ceylon, Earl Grey, Strawberry cream black). Strongly recommend this recipes if you like some special flavour of cookie.

Ingredients: 180g(3/4 cup) butter, 100g sugar, 2 egg yolks, 300g(2 cup) all purpose flour, 4 teaspoon Houjicha, pinch of salt,
Cut Hojicha into very small pieces and mix with flour, sugar, and salt.
Blend the butter until smooth and add the egg yolk and mix well.
Add the...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to make Masala Chai]]></title><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[There is no end to the diversity of recipes for making your own chai. Brewing chai is fun and allows you to experiment until you get it 'just right' for your personal taste.
Chai is basically black tea brewed with selected spices and milk. Each ingredient adds subtle flavor changes and brewing methods vary widely. In this page, I would like to introduce the recipes of our Masala Chai.
Our Masala Chai is a bit spicy, which has more spices than other company's Masala Chai. So I strongly recommend to mix with frosted(steamed) milk. Without adding milk, our Masala Chai will be...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Brief Korean Tea Culture and History]]></title><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2012 11:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Like its Pacific Rim neighbors, Japan, China, and Indochina, Korea is also a tea-drinking country with a rich ceremonial tea culture. Also like them, Korea owes its tea heritage to the enthusiasm and devotion of Buddhist monks who traveled the globe spreading the opportunity for enlightenment and the special alertness that tea contributes to the meditation process.
Tea drinking in Korea most likely began with a beverage made from tea seeds brought from China during the Silla Dynasty (57 B.C.-A.D. 668) although legend has it that the Chinese teas were replaced by a native tea plant known as Paeksan-ch'a, a white...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chinese Tea Basics]]></title><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 05:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has any interest at all in tea recognize the fascinating links between modern tea drinking and Ancient china. Tea is deeply woven into the history and culture of China. The beverage is considered one of the seven necessities of Chinese life, along with firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar. Recognized from the earliest days as a tonic herb, tea was taken internally by the Chinese as a digestive aid and applied topically in ointments to alleviate skin troubles and rheumatism.

The history of Chinese tea
According to popular legend, tea was discovered by Chinese Emperor Shennong in 2737...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Drinking tea may help prevent chronic illnesses]]></title><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Research has long shown the antioxidant properties and health benefits of drinking tea, but new findings suggest that tea may also have significant preventative properties against chronic disease.
Recent findings were discussed Wednesday at the Fifth International Scientific Symposium on Tea and Human Health in Washington, D.C.
"If there's anything that can confidently be communicated to the public, it's the ability of tea to be associated and demonstrated in the primary prevention of chronic disease," says meeting chair Jeffrey Blumberg, a professor in Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, Boston.
One of those is osteoporosis, the "brittle bone" disease. Green...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Assam Tea]]></title><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Assam Tea in brief
Assam is a black tea named after the region of its production, Assam, in India. Assam is located in northeast India and lying on either side of the Brahmaputra River, and bordering Bangladesh and Burma(Myanmar). Assam tea is manufactured specifically from the plant Camellia sinensis var. assamica. There are two major varieties used for tea, Chinese tea, Camellia sinensis var. sinensis, and Assam tea, Camellia sinensis var. assamica. The Assam tea bush grows in a lowland region, in the valley of the Brahmaputra River, an area of clay soil rich in nutrients of the floodplain. The climate...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Brief History of Tea]]></title><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Tea History
From Buddhist monks using it in their religious ceremonies to American revolutionaries tossing it in to Boston Harbor, tea has become more than a beverage; it has become an event. For nearly 5,000 years this drink has been a source of medicine, meditation, piracy, political upheaval, social order, congregation, and superstition. While the roles tea has played in Eastern and Western civilization are abundant, it is derived from a plant native to Central and Eastern Asia.
Tea has exerted a profound influence on societies and cultures throughout the world so that there are unique ceremonies in various cultures and most...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Iced Sencha (How to make Iced Tea with Japanese Sencha)]]></title><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[(Article from Hibiki-an, Japan)
Iced Tea Sencha is the perfect refreshing drink for a hot summer day, and this recipes are used by many Japanese.
There are three different ways to brew Iced tea Sencha. Each extracts the taste and constituents in a unique way. You can choose and enjoy brewing each way, considering the purpose or taste you like the best.
(1) Brewing by ice
This brewing technique is a time consuming process, but provides the most noble taste and atmosphere, which is suitable for the highest grades Sencha. This brewing technique creates a finished tea that is low in Caffeine, since Caffeine is...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Signature Japanese Teas]]></title><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[1. Sencha
This is the most commonly enjoyed variety of Japanese green tea in Japan. In general, sencha is green tinged with yellow and has a well-balanced green tinged with yellow and has a well-balanced combination of aroma, umami(flavour of the highest quality) and bitterness, providing you with a feeling of luxury that increases with the grade of green tea.
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2. Gyokuro(refined green tea)
The finest grade of Japanese green tea, Gyokuro is sweet with a unique and mildly astringent aroma and mellow umami. The tea leaves are cultivated using a special method that involves shading the young leaves from direct sunlight for...]]></description>
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