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08/04/2026

Happy Tranquil Tuesdays 💚🍃🌱

12/29/2025

Tea at the “100 Years of Art Deco” exhibit

1) two teapot drawings by Clément Mère, 1920
2) Twining lithographic drawing by Charles Loupot, 1930.

Art Deco was a special design movement where among other influences many people in the West were also inspired by arts from Japan and China.

12/21/2025

“Dying for a Cuppa” by the Singh Twins on view currently Kew Gardens.

Loved seeing this inspired artwork on the darker aspects of tea history in an exhibit of artwork created by on plants and their colonial histories .

Swipe through to see some of the details up close and read more about the artwork.

11/22/2025

History and legends of the Ancient Tea Horse Road.

To see research and image sources and to learn more about Pu’er Tea in general, please visit tranquiltuesdays.com

#普洱茶 #茶馬古道

11/12/2025

Pu’er Tea 普洱茶 is one of the world’s most distinctive and misunderstood teas.

And a great autumn 🍂 tea!

Learn from Charlene what is Pu’er Tea and what makes it so special.

Stay tuned for a whole series on Pu’er Tea!

11/04/2025

Do you want to learn more about pu’er tea 普洱茶？

Happy Tranquil Tuesdays from the farmers market mushroom table that smelled so much like raw pu’er tea that it transported me to Xishuangbanna, Yunnan and the ancient wild tea trees there.

Fall is a great time to warm up with the earthy flavors of pu’er tea.

If you want to learn more about pu’er tea, like this post and I’ll share a series on pu’er tea here on instagram.

If you have any specific questions about pu’er tea please comment below!

Happy Tranquil Tuesdays!

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09/28/2025

The “China Tea” in this 1935 menu from the S.S. Normandie ocean liner is almost certainly referring to a green tea. 🍵

And the “Ceylon Tea” (tea from British Sri Lanka, was referring to black tea) ☕️

For most of human history tea from China was synonymous with green tea 🍵 with black tea ☕️ being a relatively modern entry into global tea drinking.

I write much more in depth what the 🍵 ☕️tea emojis tell us about global tea history in Smithsonian Magazine article 🔗 in bio.

These beautiful vintage menus are part of museum’s “Dining in Transit” exhibit on display now!

05/20/2025

detail from “A Family Being Served Tea, possibly the Carter Family” ca. 1745, Paul Mellon Collection, on display as part of the current exhibit “Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie.”

I’ve been eagerly anticipating this exhibit since the winter and was thrilled to have a chance to visit yesterday .

As many tea enthusiasts know, the history and appreciation of tea is intertwined with the enjoyment and history of porcelain, particularly porcelain teaware.

I knew this exhibit would collide with tea and tea history, was delighted to view early 18th century paintings depicting tea drinking I have never seen before, as well as examples of export tea cups that reflected Chinese teacup shapes 🍵before European tea culture added handles to teacups ☕️.

After learning from the exhibit and reflecting afterwards you could almost argue tea drinking itself came to be a type of chinoiserie in Europe and Americas.

What do you think?

02/03/2025

Did you know it was the Dutch who introduced tea to Europein 1619? Learn why the Dutch were in Taiwan and the 17th century tea trade.

01/29/2025

Happy Year of the Snake 🐍!

Rat Snake (Hebi); Lizard or Skink (Tokage), from the Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (Ehon mushi erami), Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, ca. 1754–1806), 1788, from collection, Rogers Fund, 1918

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