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		<title>TEA TALES: Treasured Tea Started As A Dream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to legend, during the Qing Dynasty around the year of 1725, there was a tea farmer, Wei Yin, in Anxi County who was very diligent about growing a tea bush. Wei Yin also believed in Guanyin, which is a Bodhisattva in Buddhism. He showed his devotion by enshrining a statue of Guanyin at home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Makes Life Not So Complex</title>
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Research into tea and its health properties has been growing each year. We&#8217;ve been hearing about tea&#8217;s powerful antioxidants (known collectively as flavonoids) that can help keep the heart healthy.
Scientists think that the tea flavonoids work by relaxing blood vessels allowing blood to flow more evenly, or by keeping the arteries &#8220;flexible&#8221; and elastic. 
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cardewclub.com/news/archives/546</link>
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		<title>Craft Alliance Shows Teapots Short And Stout</title>
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Craft Alliance&#8217;s biennial teapot exhibition is one of the institution&#8217;s most popular events. This year, the show includes more than 80 clay teapots made by more than 60 potters.
The pots were chosen by master potter Fong Choo, who invited 20 artists and chose the rest from submissions. &#8220;I selected the works based on four criteria: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cardewclub.com/news/archives/544</link>
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		<title>High Time For Tea: The British Tradition Is An Elegant Oasis In The Afternoon</title>
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Today, people seem content to interact by way of increasingly impersonal technologies &#8212; now old-fashioned phone calls have given way to e-mails, text messages and instant message conversations. As much as most of us now depend on these technologies to make plans and keep in touch with distant friends and family, there&#8217;s an argument to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colchester: Mum Just Loves Cat Teapots</title>
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A CAT-LOVING collector has turned her home into the purr-fect place for a mad catter&#8217;s tea party.
Colchester mum Jane McCausland has spent 20 years building a treasure trove of more than 150 teapots, all in the shape of cats!
She openly confesses many of the kitsch kitties that line her living room walls look &#8220;disgusting&#8221;.
But she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding The Art Of Tea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since time immemorial, tea drinking has been a common practice for a majority of people in the world. 
In fact, tea has been regarded as the world’s most consumed beverage, next to water. 
But the preference of a good tea, whether it be green, black, yellow, white, red, oolong, or whatever color or flavor it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cardewclub.com/news/archives/538</link>
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		<title>The Joy Of Drinking Tea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tea is only comparable to wine when human culture celebrates the wealth of nature. Tea is a remarkable example of the soil&#8217;s generosity and diversity. It has been celebrated for 2,000 years, as a healthy beverage and a symbol of humanity. 
This extract from a poem by Lu Tong (790-835), a Chinese poet known as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cup Causing A Stir Among Tea Drinkers</title>
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The teaspoon could become a thing of the past after the invention of a mug that can stir liquid by itself.
All a drinker has to do to work the clever cup is gently swirl it.
This sets in motion a ceramic ball positioned at the bottom of the mug that stirs the contents. 
The device was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cardewclub.com/news/archives/536</link>
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		<title>Treasured Teapots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TURN a small zisha teapot in your hand, admire its design, its deep purple color, exquisite carving and seal. Strike it and hear a tiny metallic ping. Smell the embedded fragrance of green tea, writes Weng Shihui.
Little brown teapots abound in China, but look closely: Many are works of art that are famed for their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Green Tea – How An Oriental Beverage Conquer The World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By now we have all heard about the amazing health benefits of chinese green tea. Long used medicinally in China, it has become increasingly popular around the world. Is there a difference between tea grown in China, and tea from other places? What are the origins of tea, and how did it become so popular?
How [...]]]></description>
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