Want your "Certified Tea Sommelier Certificate"?

For the first time in North AMerica, there now exists a Certified Tea Sommelier Certificate program, offered by GEORGE BROWN UNIVERSITY of Canada.

Created in partnership with the Tea Association of Canada, this certificate has been designed for those professionals wishing to enter the distinguished world of a tea sommelier or for those so committed to the consumption of tea that they wish to become tea sommeliers themselves.

Learn how to cup, taste, blend and consume teas from all around the world. Take a global tour of countries that grow and produce tea from the comfort of the classroom.

Once you have completed the certificate and a final competency exam, you will be certified as a Tea Sommelier by the Tea Association of Canada.

For more information, call 416-415-5000, ext. 2517, or e-mail cehospitality@georgebrown.ca. You are also invited to attend an information session.

Certificate Completion: You must complete HOST 9119 (Tea – An Introduction) prior to taking the other courses in this certificate. You must complete the courses in section A prior to taking the courses in section B or the stage experience.
Compulsory Courses (Eight)
Section A
HOST 9119 Tea – An Introduction
HOST 9122 Tea – China and the Far East
HOST 9121 Tea – India, Africa and Beyond
HOST 9120 Tea – Preparation and Consumption

Section B
HOSF 9261 Tea – Menu Design and Food Pairing
HOSF 9262 Tea – Sensory Development and Evaluation
HOSF 9260 Tea – Service Training
HOSF 9263 Tea – Tea Garden Management

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Stage experience
Also see: Promoting tea with a Canadian twist. (Tea Association of Canada and Tea Council of Canada continue to promote tea to the Canadian market with focus on ... An article from: Tea & Coffee Trade Journal

Indian Police Stations to Serve Tea

In an effort to modernize public service, police stations in Gujarat, India will soon start to serve tea and coffee to those who are waiting to appear in court.

Citizen Facilitations Centres (CFC) will have tea and coffee vending machines in all 500 police stations in the state of Gujarat.

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Drink Green Tea to Lower Your Risk of Dying From Pneumonia

Here is yet another good science new from the green tea front: Japanese women who drink 5 or more cups of green tea a day have lowered their risk of dying from pneumonia by 47%, according to Ikue Watanabe of Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine in Sendai, Japan.

Even if they drank only 1 cup of green tea a day their risk still dropped by a whopping 41%. Not bad for a pleasant past time, isn’t it?

Watanabe studied 19,079 men and 21,493 women between 40 and 79 years old over a period of 12 years.

However, the study could not verify the same effect for men.

SOURCE: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, September, 2009