I could go to any of several fancy grocery stores and get Stumptown in a stout glass bottle that looks like it should contain Jamaican beer, or a milk-box-like container of Blue Bottle’s New Orleans Iced Coffee. Yet nobody gives a shit about iced tea, which is better suited for long-term summertime drinking. It’s crisp and dry in a way that’s much more quenching than iced coffee, most of which requires milk or cream to even be palatable. And it’s even easier to make at home.

Dandelion coffee is on the rise. It's been compared to matcha, it's a staple at a super trendy L.A. cafe and some nutrition experts have replaced their morning cup of coffee with it ... or at least add it to the mix.

Chai tea originated in India and is generally made by brewing various black teas with a mixture of aromatic spices and herbs. This spicy milk tea is typically referred to as masala chai, and althou

Whether you like to believe it or not, tea has more interesting facts than the fingers in your hands and toes have.

It is a holiday, after all.

The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway once took tea from the foothills of the Himalayas to the world, but it now faces a slow extinction.

The new law on legal highs is a bizarre piece of farcically bad drafting which could criminalise nuts, scented pillows, and the smell of flowers

It's exactly what it sounds like.

New to tea? Teavana has everything you need to prepare and brew delicious gourmtet loose leaf tea. Learn how to get started with our guide for beginners.

Matcha green tea is taking off in America, but the Japanese have been drinking it for eight centuries. What happens when commercialism meets tradition?

For decades, to be a tea lover in the United States was to wander in a wasteland. Even as Americans discovered fine coffee, with specialty coffee shops springing up across the country and debates over the merits of pour-over and cold brew, tea remained a largely pedestrian choice among mass-produced brands.

The provision of ayahuasca, a psychedelic brew used in the Amazon basin for centuries, to inmates on short furloughs reflects a quest to ease pressure on Brazil’s prison system.

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As I prepare to sample the world’s most expensive pot of tea, which has gone on the menu for the first time at the Royal China Club in central London, it is in fact the list of exotic, off-menu items I am told about – each with an eye-watering price tag – that piques my interest.

I used 20,000 teabags to illustrate a man preparing teh tarik in the background, with soft drink cans and an ice-kacang (shaved ice) machine as props in front of him hung in the foreground. The piece was 3.2x2.2meters...and weighed 200kgs! The teabags are stained in 10 different shades of brown.

Speakers will teach about tea pairing, history and more. A special happy hour kicks off the event.

Mississippi tea garden in the works

Public opinion does not favor the rich person who acts it. First there was Marie Antoinette, purportedly prescribing cake. Now there's Liu Yiqian, a Shanghai businessman who recently shattered records by buying a tiny porcelain cup with poultry paint...

Rose water makes a fanastic addition to cake and cupcake recipes. Its fragrance is quite intense so you don't need to use too much to get a really lovely effect. Pistachios complement the flavour really well, while the green colour of the nuts looks gorgeous against the pale icing. Decorated with crystallised pink rose petals (see recipe in 'top tips' below), these look truly pretty and celebratory. The cakes can be made a day ahead and would be fabulous at a wedding.