It’s a little ironic, that today we try to tease those avid coffee drinkers away from their regular shot of coffee, from those rich fine roasted beans, with a sweet, spiced, milky drink called chai. Today just about every coffee outlet, from the corner café to global giants like Starbucks, have at least one – if not many – variations of chai on their menu. How long will it be before the comedians create a similar skit to the one in Steve Martin’s 1991 movie, L.A.Story, where

During late January and leading in to early February, I was once again privileged to be back in India visiting areas that pluck at my heart strings: Assam, Darjeeling and Sikkim. This time I was able to spend more time investigating and understand the tea trade, especial in Assam the world’s largest tea producing area. On my trip, I visited Darjeeling and the Makaibari tea garden, where the Banerjee family is creating organic and biodynamic teas, plus encouraging community to