Astral Health

Proverbs and Poems about Tea

 
“Where there’s tea there’s hope.” 

- Sir Arthur Pinero

 
“Better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one.”

-Ancient Chinese Proverb

 
Tea, heavens delight, and nature’s truest wealth, that pleasing physic, and pledge of health; the statesman’s counselor, the Virgin’s love, The muse’s nectar, the drink of love.”

-A Poem Upon Tea, Peter Antoine Motteux 1712

 
“If you are cold, tea will warm you;

If you are too heated, it will cool you;

If you are depressed, it will cheer you;

If you are exhausted, it will calm you.”

-William Gladstone

 
“Enjoy life sip by sip not gulp by gulp.”

 
-The Minister of Leaves

 
Peace Be Still Sam

The choice of the right water is as important for a good cup of tea as the proportions and brewing time. The water should not have too much taste of its own, and should not be hard or high in limestone, chlorine or iron. Water with excessively high salt content or oxidized magnesium is also unsuitable. The best water comes from springs in high mountain valleys. If you don’t happen to have this to hand, you can buy spring water. Never use distilled water to brew a cup of green tea.

Peace Be Still Sam

Sencha (Roasted Tea) makes the best tasting, refreshing green ice tea.

Put one tablespoon (per cup) of sencha in a glass teapot’s strainer and pour hot water (cooled down the same way you make hot tea) until the water covers the leaves. Add ice cubes to the pot. Pour 5/8 cup of cold water into the pot. When the ice cubes melt its ready to drink.

Another alternative that also works well if you don’t mind waiting for the tea to cold-brew, is to pour cold water over tea leaves in a pitcher and then to store it in the fridge over night. In the morning you will have cold green tea as the leaves diffuse into the water even at low temperatures.

Peace Be Still, Sam