<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- generator="WordPress/abc" -->
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>International Tea Sippers Society &#187; Norwood Pratt</title>
	<link>http://www.teasipperssociety.com</link>
	<description>An opportunity for tea lovers to discover fun, value and the latest trends in the World of Tea.</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:20:44 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	
	<item>
		<title>ITSS First Flush Gathering Kick Off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A pre-launch event for Northern California Sippers drew more than a hundred new members to a full day of tea talks and tastings.

James Norwood Pratt enthralled the crowd with stories and cups of rare brew from his most recent tour of Taiwan tea plantations while Mitchel Noble shared some of the current medical research on the health benefits of tea and sampled some of the finest Chinese teas PeLi Tea imports. Tea educator, Anne Evans, delighted the Sippers with A History of U.S. Tearooms]]></description>
		<link>http://www.teasipperssociety.com/resources/itss-first-flush-gathering-kick-off/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Origins of Tea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the misty distant past, the second of China's emperor's ruled Asia. He was a sage named Shen Nong who understood all manner of plants and their uses. The Chinese say it was Shen Nong who first taught them agriculture and herbal medicine and – of equal importance in their eyes – how to make tea. The first book on the subject, the Ch'a Ching, the "classic" or "scripture" of tea, written in the 760s, cited the emperor as an authority.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.teasipperssociety.com/resources/origins-of-tea/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>ITSS Here! April 17th Kick Off Event</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On April 17th, An Afternoon to Remember will be hosting the kick off event for the International Tea Sippers Society.  The kick off event called &#8220;First Flush, &#8221; will be in open house format from 11-7  with featured guest speakers James Norwood Pratt, Mitchel Noble, and Anne Evans.  The day will be centered around tea. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.teasipperssociety.com/resources/itss-here-april-17th-kick-off-event/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
