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How To Break Your Daily Caffeine Habit And Use Coffee Strategically

You'd never give up your morning cup of coffee--unless you knew that it could be even better. Here's how to start tailing off your daily fix and turning it into a super attention and memory shot.READ»

Kauai's Cloudwater Tea Farm Is Former Flight Attendant's Decade-Long Experiment

The organic farming trend is making its stamp on the island state and on a product sparsely grown in the United States.READ»

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Wes Anderson's Pal Waris Ahluwalia Pops Tea Room Under NYC High Line

A tea room dedicated to love and history, the pop-up space is Ahluwalia's latest foray into creative, cultural entrepreneurship.READ»

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Yerba Mate: the Wonder Drink for Business & Social Good

Guayaki's goal is to create 1,000 jobs and restore 200,000 acres of rainforest by the year 2020. To do so, it will have to grow by at least 25% annually for the next decade.READ»

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Trump Tea Bags: Taste the Status

Donald Trump branches into tea with his very own tea line.READ»

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Innovation in China's Tea Industry

Joshua Kaiser of Rishi Tea pioneered organic, fair-trade tea in the United States, but also in China.READ»

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Tea Buds Thrive in New Zealand's One and Only Tea Garden

Zealong's Vincent Chen moves from skyscrapers to tea fields.READ»

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Brian Ritchie: Violent Femmes Bassist Turned Tasmanian Tea Slinger, Japanese Bamboo Flutist

How a few side gigs with his former band led to a post-rock career as an arts entrepreneur and tea shop owner.READ»

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Can Nicholas Tung's Modern Tea Bars Make Hong Kong Hipsters Traditional Again?

Here's what we found out at the Hong Kong International Tea Fair, Asia's premiere tea source expo.READ»

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How Scientist Robert Fortune Fueled Britain's Expansion by Stealing the Secret of Tea

Sarah Rose, author of a new book about how tea forged historical relations between China, India, and the West, says that industrial espionage in the 1800s shaped the world much the way it does today.READ»

Shark Fin Infuser, Possibly The Most Evil Tea-Maker Ever

Sharky is a floating tea-infuser that looks like a shark fin marauding through the dangerous waters of your tea mug that simultaneously releases streamers of steeped tea that look suspiciously like the detritus after a nasty shark ...READ»

Fair-Trade Towns: Let's Spread the Movement

Out of six official fair-trade towns in the whole United States, two are one town away from me--Amherst, Massachusetts and Northampton, Massachusetts (I live in the town between them, Hadley--which, small as it is, has at least five ...READ»