April's Tea Crossword Challenge
Across
- 2. This tea is a very lightly oxidized tea that the taiwanese actually categorize in a class all its own while most people in the US tea industry consider it an oolong.
- 5. There are how many basic stages of tea processing?
- 7. Almost all the teas in this country are harvested by machine, even high quality teas.
- 10. This kind of pluck is more than two leaves and a bud.
- 11. This Chinese province is known today for its puerh dark tea and its black teas.
- 13. This is what you experience after the tea has left your mouth. It's the taste and/or aroma at the end of the next breath.
- 14. In this country teas can be categorized by region, the season when the tea was plucked, the shape of the leaf. the cultivar and/or by the legend behind the tea's origins.
- 16. During China's Song Dynasty, this monk returned to Japan after spending years in China Studying Buddhism. He brought with him tea seeds, a great thirst for tea and respect for the customs of drinking tea he had experienced in China.
- 18. What well known coffee house in London, was the first to offer tea leaf and drink for sale to the public in 1658?
- 20. This tea is the least processed of all the teas.
- 21. Scotsman James Taylor began experimenting with tea culture in Ceylon in 1852 at what estate?
- 22. On this island in Korea, almost all tea cultivation, harvesting and production are done by machine.
- 24. The world's most popular flavored tea is what? (2 words)
Down
- 1. This is the process of analyzing and evaluating teas in a consistent and standardized manner.
- 3. This is a naturally occurring process that actually begins slowly after the leaf is plucked.
- 4. The traditional way of preparing chai was simmering or boiling a mixture of what kind of milk and water with loose black tea and spices, wrapped in cloth for straining?
- 6. This makes up around 70 to 80 % of the weight of a fresh leaf depending on the recent weather and cultivar.
- 8. This Japanese tea is made from the stalks and stems removed from the leaves during sencha production.
- 9. The world's most popular scented tea is what?
- 10. What are cultivated varieties that are scientifically developed for certain characteristics?
- 12. In India, what are the individual clay cups that are made from clay and then are broken when emptied called?
- 15. "What is the Hindu health and healing system which has existed in India for thousands of years?"
- 17. Originating in Chinese tea culture what word means "covered bowl"?
- 19. This is the largest contiguous tea growing area in the world, with 850 tea gardens.
- 21. Tea is food in some cultures. It is the basis for the national dish of Burma. What is it called?
- 23. What is the sap-based sugar that is used to sweeten strong black brew in Ceylon called?